Tesla wants to be the first company to offer wheelchair-accessible autonomous vehicles
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Designing AVs around wheelchair access from the start reframes accessibility from retrofit to core spec. Cities and fleet operators should be ready for accessibility to become a procurement requirement, not a nice-to-have, in autonomous transport RFPs.
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