Nobody Asked for a Crab Chair
In our last installment of “Good Intentions Gone Wrong: When Disability Engineers Go Bad,” we highlighted a particularly egregious Swiss wheelchair design featuring superfluous drones. Thankfully, not all engineers who receive blank checks to design disability solutions are that out of touch. More commonly, the lack of constraints that comes with deep corporate pockets results in sexy, future-forward designs with tantalizing possibilities that somehow leave me feeling more empty than excited.
- ▪In our last installment of “Good Intentions Gone Wrong: When Disability Engineers Go Bad,” we highlighted a particularly egregious Swiss wheelchair design featuring superfluous drones.
- ▪Thankfully, not all engineers who receive blank checks to design disability solutions are that out of touch.
- ▪More commonly, the lack of constraints that comes with deep corporate pockets results in sexy, future-forward designs with tantalizing possibilities that somehow leave me feeling more empty than excited.
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| Original publisher | New Mobility |
| Canonical URL | https://newmobility.com/nobody-asked-for-a-crab-chair/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:48:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-25T13:25:32.104Z |
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In our last installment of “Good Intentions Gone Wrong: When Disability Engineers Go Bad,” we highlighted a particularly egregious Swiss wheelchair design featuring superfluous drones. Thankfully, not all engineers who receive blank checks to design disability solutions are that out of touch. More commonly, the lack of constraints that comes with deep corporate pockets results in sexy, future-forward designs with tantalizing possibilities that somehow leave me feeling more empty than excited. Toyota’s new-ish “Walk me” prototype could be the poster chair for what I’m talking about. The “Walk me” replaces wheels with four articulating legs that bend and move independently. Picture a four-legged crab with light-up legs carefully balancing an uncomfortable-looking seat.
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