A few months ago we reported on fashionable hearing aids featured at INDEX Awards. Now The Cool Hunter brings us a story of really cool wheels for the disabled by Hungarian company Rehab Rt.
Designed in Hungary, the Kenguru is a car specially designed for wheelchair users. The car’s interior space has no front seat–just a space built to house the driver’s own wheelchair so all he/she has to do is simply roll in through the extra large car doors and into position. The wheelchair locks into place, within easy reach of the car’s controls which are centred around a joystick. It’s light years away from the current options for disabled drivers, which involve having to hoist themselves into the driver’s seat of standard cars…
In the concept of a “vehicle in vehicle” we focused on the function. We constructed the model to surround the user sitting in a manual wheelchair, than added ergonomic operating and functional units. We used soft lines on the outside. The inside space is friendly, controlling and operating units can be reached easily. The driver feels secure even in city traffic, furthermore he drives an attractive “car”, said designer Zsolt Varga.
Find out more at INDEX Awards…
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