What is the overall goal of the WC19 compliant wheelchair and WTORS standards?
The overall goal of WC19 and of SAE J2249 is to provide the wheelchair user with the opportunity and the option to use equipment (i.e., a wheelchair seat, a wheelchair, a wheelchair securement system, and an occupant restraint) that is comparable in design and performance to seats and restraint systems available to able-bodied travelers in motor vehicles. It is not necessarily the goal of these standards to provide a comparable level of injury risk prevention for wheelchair occupants to that of the able-bodied population. Injury risk is a function of many biomechanical factors such as: body size, body condition and occupant age. When varying levels of disability are added to these factors, it is most likely that the wheelchair occupant will be at higher risk of injury then a person without a disability. It is also not the goal of WC19 to regulate or require the use of WC19-compliant wheelchairs in the real world. While there is little doubt that the use of WC19 wheelchairs, along with
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