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How Autonomous Vehicles Could Help People with Disabilities

www.scientificamerican.com How Autonomous Vehicles Could Help People with Disabilities

Self-driving cars could give people who live outside big cities and are unable to drive more mobility, but the technology must still overcome some hurdles

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Autonomous vehicles, like trains or subways are indeed very useful for people with disabilities.

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- Luckily the train pulls up right next to my disabled grandpa's house. And it drops him off right at the doctor's office. No walking required!
  
  Oh wait.
  
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  Most proper public transit rollouts also include point-to-point vans specifically made to haul disabled people around. Even the USA has these in some places!
  
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  You're getting downvoted but it's a completely valid point.
  
  Many people's disabilities make public transport unusable.
  
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This article is the written equivalent of the soyjak pointing meme. Adds no further insight and serves only to hype up a product that does not yet exist.

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- It does exist, it's just trains, not cars.
  
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  Trains have drivers. Also, I can either take a train out of my city or into it. I can't use a train within my city and it doesn't take me grocery shopping either. My head hurts trying to imagine how you think a train is going to replace car.
  
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- It's also a "putting water in a pot over a flame will get you hot water" article.. pretty obvious fact.
  
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Brain transplants into completely healthy bodies could help too, but since neither are available right now, I don’t get what the purpose of this article is.

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By sending them off to their maker?

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More investment in public transit would do this cheaper, better, and quicker.

In the US we have ADA funding for para transit as well as county and municipal funding. All we have to do is increase it to make paratransit more convenient for the disabled.

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We're still not in a position for vehicles to be entrusted to someone who couldn't physically intercede to take over control of the car in an emergency.

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Or pass over them too.

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