ALL URBAN DESIGN SHOULD BE HUMAN-CENTERED

UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS THE PATH TO ACHIEVING IT

It is incredible that virtually every prototype for robotaxis and driverless public transportation vehicles – is a sedan that cannot accommodate a wheelchair users.

Even companies that boast they are creating the transportation of the future for all, push back on accessible vehicles.

They basically say, let us figure this out for a decade, then we’ll include power wheelchair users. 

Can you imagine saying “we won’t let people of color in this park for a decade, till we perfect it.

Or, well, we won’t seat women in this performing arts center for about a dozen years, till we get the operation going perfectly.

There would be outrage.

As well there should be.

But create the vehicle of the future, and you apparently get to discriminate.