WAYMO you have the Detroit spotlight what will you shine it upon?

#WAYMO —WAY TO GO…SO FAR —BUT WILL YOU GO FAR ENOUGH

(will you honor #inclusion and #disability rights?

It is great that WAYMO has decided to repurpose the facilities and skills of auto makers in a part of our country that is known for auto making excellence in the past century. I stand and applaud this as WAYMO and their parent company #Google have enough clout and resources to ramp up this effort anywhere in this world and maybe even on other planets soon (okay I am confusing them with Tesla).

However, I do have three questions (don’t I always seem to have questions?”

How inclusive will this new auto works be? Will there be efforts made to make it the most accessible and inclusive plant the world has ever seen? Why do I ask—-because you could make that happen and by that action alone gain public trust and admiration by many which a currency the self-driving universe needs to develop.

What percentage of your design teams and work force will be seniors and/or people with disabilities? The state of Michigan has a few of us who are talented, aware of innovation, all too familiar with barriers, and most of all all ready to produce the best damn transportation options in the world.

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3. Given that you already recognize the truth of the above when are you going to stop bowing from the applause of doing this and actually implement the inclusive and accessible concepts that self-driving can accomplish?

In short this brief blog says—-

Way to go WAYMO

It then asks what are you going to do to include everyone.

Finally it asks a question I have been asking a lot of companies getting press about this…… when does the equality and participation of all start? When does the implementation prove that Self-Driving companies really want to revolutionize and improve mobility for the world?

I truly believe all the AV and SD folks want to do this…they just haven’t invited all the right people to the table and onto the shop floor yet and I hope YET is the operative word here.

#AI

#Tesla

#WAYMO

#disability rights