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The Link: A Motorized Modification to Car Seats That Makes Ingress/Egress Way Easier

Adapt Solutions invented it as a transfer seat for wheelchair users

By Rain Noe - March 10, 2020

This ergonomic, motorized car seat modification makes getting in and out of a car much easier for people with mobility issues. Called Link, it can be installed beneath your car's existing seat to make life much easier for the user. Here's how it works:

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Link was invented by Canadian company Adapt Solutions, which specializes in "innovative mobility solutions" like vehicle wheelchair lifts and ramps as well as transfer seats. The video was shot by Mobility One Transportation, an Oklahoma-based installer and seller of accessible vehicles.

It's worth noting that while the Link was designed as a transfer seat for wheelchair users, it might be useful to folks that aren't in wheelchairs as well. In particular, I think my 70-something neighbor, who can walk but has bad knees that make it very difficult to enter or exit cars, could really use something like this.

"Bring Back the Ergonomics: Cars Used to Have Swiveling Front Seats to Make Them Easier to Get In and Out of"

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Juan Cano

10 months ago

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Lovely. Why is it so slow?

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  because there is no leg clearence and they didn't want to break people legs
  
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Reminds me of old swivel bucket seats.

https://www.core77.com/posts/54841/Bring-Back-the-Ergonomics-Cars-Used-to-Have-Swiveling-Front-Seats-to-Make-Them-Easier-to-Get-In-and-Out-of

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  Thanks Joel, totally forgot to add that!
  
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Rain Noe

I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.