Goal 3: Improve access for individuals with disabilities to passenger & commercial vehicles
Facilitate standardization for automated wheelchair securement
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Goal 3: Improve access for individuals with disabilities to passenger & commercial vehicles
Goal 3: Improve access for individuals with disabilities to passenger & commercial vehicles
Goal 3: Improve access for individuals with disabilities to passenger & commercial vehicles
USDOT should ensure AVs and current vehicles provide lifts or ramps, including kneeling, as well as securements. In addition, securements must include proper seat and shoulder belts in good repair. Today, the absence or incomplete presence of seat and shoulder belts often expose wheelchair riders to danger, even in ordinary traffic conditions, as opposed to a sudden stop or collision.
Goal 3: Improve access for individuals with disabilities to passenger & commercial vehicles
Goal 3: Improve access for individuals with disabilities to passenger & commercial vehicles
Goal 3: Improve access for individuals with disabilities to passenger & commercial vehicles
USDOT should develop engagement guidance to state departments of transportation, state policymakers, metropolitan planning organizations and transit agencies, that includes steps on how to include members of the disability community, low-income communities, and communities of color in advisory groups.
Goal 3: Improve access for individuals with disabilities to passenger & commercial vehicles
USDOT should provide a template for private industry that could be used to undertake an accessibility assessment for all new vehicles. The assessment could be similar to the voluntary safety assessment. The results of the assessment should be included in the AV Transparency and Engagement for Safe Testing (AV TEST) Initiative database and website.
Goal 3: Improve access for individuals with disabilities to passenger & commercial vehicles
Goal 3: Improve access for individuals with disabilities to passenger & commercial vehicles
Goal 3: Improve access for individuals with disabilities to passenger & commercial vehicles
As they are providing a service to the general public, they should not be allowed to do so unless they are accessible to those with disabilities. This should have to be demonstrated before they are given a license to operate.
Goal 3: Improve access for individuals with disabilities to passenger & commercial vehicles
Goal 3: Improve access for individuals with disabilities to passenger & commercial vehicles
Goal 3: Improve access for individuals with disabilities to passenger & commercial vehicles
Goal 3: Improve access for individuals with disabilities to passenger & commercial vehicles
Goal 3: Improve access for individuals with disabilities to passenger & commercial vehicles