Please tell me I\'m having a nightmare. . .
Dear God! This is EXACTLY the opposite direction we [in America, anyway] need to go in!!!
I want to rid the highways of poor drivers, but someone\'s working on ways to get not just bad drivers, but literally LAME drivers on the road?

Mr. Donovan,
Dear GOD!, you are the exact type of people that we disabled folks are constantly fighting. What makes someone who had his arm blown off, or someone born without an arm a poor driver? One has nothing to do with the other. If you happened to burn your hand and couldn\'t use it for a few weeks, would that all of a sudden make you a poor driver? Please support your fellow humans rather than ignorantly discard the disabled as dumb and lame.

Clearly David Donovan has never watched the paralympics, or he\'d realise that loss of a limb does not reduce reaction times, skill or judgement. Would Mr Donovan also like to see our returned injured Servicemen off the streets? I\'d like to thank Gizmag for highlighting an excellent assistive technology that will make our roads safer and provide better mobility for those unfortunate enough to suffer a physical injury.

I\'d be willing to wager that Mr. Donovan has quite a few all or nothing opinions about people. A physical disability does not make one a bad driver. Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, while talking on a cell phone or blatantly ignoring the rules of the road makes for bad drivers.

My point, so fine and so excellent, is that our roadways are clogged from lame drivers.
I am not worried about potentially excellent (probably young) amputee drivers.
I am saying this is going to enable lame drivers from among the pathetic hoards who are always pursuing fairness instead of excellence.

A joystick drive by wire is not new, I read about a factory prototype that had one decades ago, but I would love to see one get into production.

And why should this just be used by the disabled. Could be the way to go for future vehicles

It looks like a ride on sex machine.

My late wife would have loved this, had it been available. She always wanted the freedom of driving but found the add-on devices to enable her to at the time were too cumbersome, expensive or both. One thing sure: her only deficiency was physical; she was a near genius, mentally. I was always astounded at the things she was able to acomplish. As for people like Mr. Donovan, she had little use for such and often said that the worst handicaps were not physical or even mental, but the defects in character and compassion and understanding. Her handicap did not make her suffer as much as the Donovans of the world.

I have two questions for Mr. Donovan aka Richard Cranium:
1. What do you propose that we should do with these disabled people who seem to be such a hindrance to you? Should we exterminate them, just like old Mr. Hitler did?
2. Have you ever considered that you or a family member may some day become disabled through e.g. a stroke, diabetes or maybe an accident or damage at birth by negligent doctors/nurses?