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United Spinal Policy Fellow Kent Keyser the nonprofit’s point person for automated passenger vehicles.

He’s passionate about ensuring accessibility is a built-in feature, not a clunky retrofitted add-on.

“Separate but equal doesn’t work — AV fleets must be 100% accessible,” says Kent.

“The moment you segregate wheelchair users and only provide a small number of vehicles accessible to us, we face delays, being stranded and all the health and safety hazards that arise from that lack of services.”

A quadriplegic injured from a 2007 fall in his home, Kent was a senior policy advisor and chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall II before joining United Spinal.

He spools out ways that accessible AV fleets could save our nation money.

Think of all the medical appointments missed when accessible transportation falls through or doesn’t exist.

That costs our nation billions.

“Accessible automated fleets could be part of the answer,’ he says.