Design and development of driving system for disabled driver

• Main Authors: Abdullah, Kassim Abdulrahman, Mohamed Ali, Jaffar Syed, Tuan Kamaruddin, Tengu Nordayana, Md Saufi, Syaira Jihan
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: TL1 Motor vehicles
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/3770/1/WEC_-_CAME_Proceeding_CAME_90.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/3770/; http://www.rnipsp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70:world-engineering-congress-2010&catid=45:international&Itemid=72'

Being able to drive a car is a major step towards independence for people with disabilities, but the conventional driving system installed in a car is not equipped with the utility for the disabled driver to drive the vehicle. Thus this paper presents the development of a new driving system for a disabled driver. In this work modification was made to the existing conventional systems by using hand-operated mechanisms for braking and acceleration systems, while for the steering system, steer-by-wire concept was applied