OUR BRIEF

Our brief is to find and design a solution to aid and improve accessibility of disability vehicles.Our design will aid carers/parents of disabled children in both loading and transporting their children with more ease.We aim to create a design that is simple and compact, a design that could be incorporated into existing cars.Our design will allow carer/parent and child to interact more freely within the car.

DISABILITY CAR SURVEY

We created a survey to collect primary research. We wanted to gain insight into the lives of not only people with a disability, but also their parents/ carers. We have decided to aim our designs around the disabled from ages 1-21 years. However we mainly want to focus on aiding the parents and carers of the disabled, in transporting, and loading their children with their wheelchairs into a vehicle. 

Below you can see the results of our survey.

36 People surveyed, ranging from 6 different disability groups online.

Many parents/carers claimed to have serious back or knee problems, among a range of problems. This is a result of having to lift their child or equipment such as a wheelchair.

FORD FIESTA UK'S BEST SELLING CAR

“The best-selling car brands in the UK in the first quarter of 2015 were ford, Vauxhall and Volkswagen. The Ford Fiesta was Britain’s favourite car model”

With 39,804 sales in Q1 of 2015

Features of the Ford Fiesta 2015

• Keyless entry
• Ecoboost engine
• City stop- Autonomous emergency stop
• Ford Mykey- Control max speed, seatbelt reminder and audio within the vehicle.

RESEARCH PRESENTATION

The Car People attended a presentation session to provide feedback, regarding the research we have carried out. This presentation included a brief overview of our research areas, before the selection of the area we are to focus on. 

We chosen to focus our further research in the area of disability access. 

EXISTING RAMP DESIGNS

OGO TECHNOLOGY: WHEELCHAIR DESIGN

The disabled are exactly like you and me, they all need freedom and excitement in their life. And Ogo takes that to a whole new level. It will go faster, it will go more places and is smaller and lighter than just about anything else.

And the fact that you can operate it completely hands-free makes Ogo a definite game-changer.

– KEVIN HALSALL