Charity and the car. «Hyundai ix-Onic

Charity and the car.

The unusual combination of words! Most necessary but seldom-used heart in relation to domestic structures.

Here is a woman with a baby in a stroller, old, disabled, with great difficulty, "loaded" they express not pick another, to our massive city bus LIAZ - 677, or trolley ZIU-682, or ESD. Footrests they correspond to GOST 10022-62 - the first step to a height of not more than 360mm from the road. To step on it, it is necessary to raise the foot of one leg almost to the level of the other knee. And it is with the prosthesis, or arthritis, back when rushed.

A baby! He should be removed from the carriage and make the cabin, followed by the highly raised his hand and a stroller. Otherwise, it is impossible - the doorway is divided almost tubular handrail meter height. For this reason, and the disabled in a wheelchair does not ride a bus LIAZ, trolley ZIU-682V. There is for them and special taxi.

But is it all hopeless! Is there an alternative solution! There! In the latest coaches' Van Hool A500-"(Belgium) and SL202-MAN (Germany), the first step on the road lies at an altitude of 315 - 320 mm, and the next - only 200 mm (GOST 10022-62 in our height of not more than 300 mm). So why do we have such State Standards and designers have long ignored the solutions found abroad!

The firm "Auverter" produced for the Munich 1987 batch of articulated buses "Neoplan-CM1-H" with a lifting platform to move into the cabin wheelchairs, baby carriages. It automatically lowers the level of the sidewalk when you open the door. The lifting device is activated by pressing the button, the driver and requires no outside help a disabled person.

It is difficult! Expensive! But you can save, on anything, just not at the mercy.

Disabled children, labor, war ... confined to the wheelchair, they are strongly constrained in communication with the outside world. There is for them, though, and motokolyaski and cars with manual control. But how to get to the machine from home! Only on crutches, with great difficulty and inconvenience. And if there is a wheelchair, where it is easy to see, sitting behind the wheel!

In France, the company "Gato" released in 1983 with the modification of "Hamdimobil" sverhmalolitrazhnoy model. In her salon with disabilities enters the wheelchair descends to the level of road bridges. The mechanism of lifting and closing the door has a remote control. Inside the passenger seat latch locks with pillars. Interesting and original solution to a problem that could be realized in a special modification of "Oka". Merciful, wise, and technically, as we see, is quite feasible. So why not for local buses, trolley buses, cars with manual control! Maybe we should think about it in the commissions of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Minavtoselhoemasha!