UBC student with disability first in Canada to use joystick driving system

18-year-old Shaan Lail, is the first in Canada to be licensed to be on the road using the Joysteer electronic driving system that allows people with minimal hand function to control a vehicle with a single joystick. To read more: cbc.ca/1.3789317
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[@tabby1361]

This is a wonderful evolution for people with disabilities but government is never going to help pay in the United States my mom waited 6 months for a wheelchair with $50,000 she had a manual before that they didn't care they're not going to give you something for the car I pray but

[@uzmaiqbal1510]

Helo I am disable from pakistan I am come to canda please help me

[@launchpad6484]

I went for my driver's license in Richmond B.C. Jan 29 at 4:30 and my driving instructor a Chinese man I had to argue for 10 minutes that my neck was broken in 1998 the discs in my neck have been welded (fixed) where I can't turn my neck to back up and this man would not believe me and for 10 minutes we argue and I show him my scares this man would not believe me at all, his manager made we move to another window and my ride was sitting right there I left richmond that day with another broken neck because this driving instructor would not believe me why did this happen

[@tobbeborislyba]

Please tell me You later went to the driving school and shown them your papers, thats literally a win/win courtcase for You if they treated You i'm that way

[@uzmaiqbal1510]

What documenta viza pross

[@mammottplays7888]

It’s like Airbus

[@asifaaj1]

very nice video i need this car because i am disabled.please reply when you feel free. thanks.

[@josephmirigliano8728]

Cool 😎

[@jesusgarcia-cz3me]

lmao wtf it costs more than the van

[@jenniferoppong1035]

Hey from humber

[@paradox2579]

This wouldn't be as much of a problem if North America just had better public transit. Public transit gives everyone more options, but in America and Canada everything is pretty much exclusively built for cars which is just terrible. Canada made the choice everyone should drive everywhere so paying for transport for the disabled is the least they can do since they designed the country in such an incompetent fashion.

[@FarooqKhan-si8wu]

i want this car.

[@cripplingtoast8383]

W comment

[@jesusgarcia-cz3me]

I have the same disease I want to move to canada

[@mackcummy4976]

No.

[@cripplingtoast8383]

No.

[@alicooks3453]

What are the chance or the way to a person with semi disabl having good years of working experience to migrate to canada to live the life independently??

[@AJGHOSTIII]

Dose his car fly?

[@MusaratMunir]

My name is musarat Munir I have applied for immigration to Canada for teaching I'm disabled and handicap I have Lost my left arm in earthquakes of 2 005.. in Azad Kashmir university when I was in 3rd semester of msc chemistry.please help me when I will come to Canada with vehicle

[@drunkensloth8626]

The only thing I find wrong about this is the fact it costs $70,000. I have Duchenne and have no problem having people drive me around, I lost most of my upper body strength already anyway. And if the Government is going to start throwing money around, I'll just take the $70,000.

[@ragegameing6473]

In America we can start driving at age 15.5

[@ragegameing6473]

Eric Von thanks for letting me know

[@HighTen_Melanie]

In the UK it’s 17. You can drive from 16 if you get certain disability benefits.

[@AMPProf]

WHY IS THIS NOT STANDARD????! Looks way mor ergonomic then Bent arm over arm over hand .. Shoulder cramp oh lord !??

[@chipchipcheerio6008]

He has been assimilated

[@unnamed1992]

The idea of using this technology to help people with disability - great. The idea of using taxpayer's money to fund it, I don't think that would be an easy idea to sell.

[@mikehalpern384]

I think It costs less money to send someone to the International space station orbiting Earth than it does for this teen to go get a half gallon of milk at the store by himself in this vehicle. A Space Rocket is less expensive to build and operate than that special van !! :-)

[@weazz]

covering the full 70K i understand, having some sort of subsidy over time isn't bad. I we give tax payer subsidies to wal-mart. Would you rather see Canadians like him or Wal-Mart get subsidy money? It's not that we don't have money, it's that we waste money we spend now so it's the reason we can't have nice things :(

[@mikehalpern384]

weazz Hum, I disagree, I was joking about the space rocket but I think if a teen wants a special car like that the family should pay for it themselves entirely. Costs too much, wasting a lot of money there ! we can't afford all those expenses now, you have to put your foot down sometimes. :-)

[@Tiger-zo2gn]

I agree government (the people) should not fund personal customized vehicles. I fully support subsidized transit everywhere in Canada that can accommodate disabled people. Transit has been expanding in my area.

[@user-jq6wf1xk5g]

with so many conditions unattended for, with so much healthcare deficiencies and inequality, with so much suffering, with so much disability and people whose lives are thorn apart by a refractory diseases with no cure making people unable to work and have normal fulfilling lives, with so much poverty, with so much uncovered life changing treatments, fork out $70000 for every disabled person to be able to drive is just unthinkable and unreasonable. You should work to get it and maybe get a tax exemption. otherwise public transport should get you covered.

[@AlvinShen]

Create a go fund me account!!!!!!!!