Disabled drivers

[EricH]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

In the past four years, I've only seen one occasion where special accommodations were made. In the 2004 (FIRST Frenzy) season, one of the student drivers for team 181 was in a wheelchair and had access to a special ramp in the driver station, which elevated him at least another foot above the ground.

The year before, another team's driver (or one of them) was in a powered wheelchair, so the crew got out the ramp. He was pretty good at driving, too.

Let's face it, in some venues it's harder for a disabled person to get to the field/pit level than become "high enough" to drive. If we're so concerned about "height challenged" people, how about just making the whole operator station out of Lexan? As long as they can see over the diamond plate, they're usually fine.