You know that wild-wheelchair idea? It seems very good to me. I can't imagine it hasn't been done.
I have a friend who is confined to a wheelchair, he has a couple of motorized ones, so i've looked very closely at them, and had the thought that one reason they make the user seem so disabled, as distinguished from simply seated, is that because of the structure of the chair, the leg from the knees down must hang straight down, at right angles to the thighs, the feet planted on the shelf below at right angles to the shins, and that is not, ever, the way people sit voluntarily. So it evokes (the actual) incapacity rather strongly.
I think that it must also be uncomfortable, and cause backaches. It is natural to tuck your feet under you, I mean under your seat.
I have wondered whether it would be technologically possible to make wheelchairs work with a space that would allow the feet to be tucked in a little bit, at least.
And then they could be decorated like Harleys.
I'll bet Ish knows. |
