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objects because it is easier to design and produce them separately. Knowledge,
skills, and equipment are simpler if we separate them.
But if we come back to our basic desire that we would like to get around freely,
this desire is exactly the same as the one the disabled person desires as personal
mobility and accessibility. So transportation can be regarded in a broad sense as one
area of assistive technology.
Further, if we think that way, we would then realize that we don't have to park
our car in the garage and bring heavy things into the house. Disabled persons enter
a house on wheels. Why can't we do the same? Application-speci
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c technology is
disabling us. Our perspectives stick too much to the current technology framework.
If we can develop a really personalized mobility such as Fig.
8
(“Honda US-X”,
2009), then there will be no discrimination or difference between the disabled- and
the able-bodied. We can enter a house on wheels without any trouble. And if
airplanes are redesigned to accommodate such a personal mobility, then we can
reduce the trouble of changing the means of transport. Indeed, we may still need a
plane and a house, but no matter how such outside environments may change, we
hope we can get around without any dif
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culty and trouble.
Fig. 8 Honda US-X
