I finally have some interesting OC for this site! My coworker is an engineer with quadriplegia, and after a scary fall from a hydraulic wheelchair lift, he developed this wheelchair accessible...
I finally have some interesting OC for this site! My coworker is an engineer with quadriplegia, and after a scary fall from a hydraulic wheelchair lift, he developed this wheelchair accessible truck which drops down to the ground to allow a wheelchair to enter and exit.
I saw it at work the other day and now I'm obsessed.
This is so cool! Especially since it was actually designed by a disabled person who understands his needs and safety requirements based on decades of experience. Some accessibility tech that's...
This is so cool! Especially since it was actually designed by a disabled person who understands his needs and safety requirements based on decades of experience. Some accessibility tech that's heavily popularized as new and exciting isn't designed with much input from disabled people (let alone an engineer that's disabled themselves).
Seriously! He's an independent contractor for my company (works from home), so I only see him once a year at the Christmas party. I saw him chatting next to the truck with our CFO and I busted in...
Seriously! He's an independent contractor for my company (works from home), so I only see him once a year at the Christmas party. I saw him chatting next to the truck with our CFO and I busted in to their conversation to say "Your truck is so cool!!" but at the time I had no idea he made it.
Then he told me the story of how a friend pushed him onto a hydraulic lift in a manual wheelchair, and they didn't lock the chair in properly and he tipped over backward and fell from 3 feet off the ground onto his head. He said "that only needed to happen once" for him to realize that something safer needed to be made.
That's amazing. A friend of the family was in a powered chair when I was growing up, and I saw firsthand how clunky and awkward getting into her van was. I'm glad to see there are better solutions...
That's amazing. A friend of the family was in a powered chair when I was growing up, and I saw firsthand how clunky and awkward getting into her van was. I'm glad to see there are better solutions being developed.
I finally have some interesting OC for this site! My coworker is an engineer with quadriplegia, and after a scary fall from a hydraulic wheelchair lift, he developed this wheelchair accessible truck which drops down to the ground to allow a wheelchair to enter and exit.
I saw it at work the other day and now I'm obsessed.
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This is so cool! Especially since it was actually designed by a disabled person who understands his needs and safety requirements based on decades of experience. Some accessibility tech that's heavily popularized as new and exciting isn't designed with much input from disabled people (let alone an engineer that's disabled themselves).
Seriously! He's an independent contractor for my company (works from home), so I only see him once a year at the Christmas party. I saw him chatting next to the truck with our CFO and I busted in to their conversation to say "Your truck is so cool!!" but at the time I had no idea he made it.
Then he told me the story of how a friend pushed him onto a hydraulic lift in a manual wheelchair, and they didn't lock the chair in properly and he tipped over backward and fell from 3 feet off the ground onto his head. He said "that only needed to happen once" for him to realize that something safer needed to be made.
That's amazing. A friend of the family was in a powered chair when I was growing up, and I saw firsthand how clunky and awkward getting into her van was. I'm glad to see there are better solutions being developed.