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The phone part sounds great, the wheel chair portion sounds like it will just make wheel chairs more expensive. Wheelchairs are generally already highly repaira

• Loughla 1y ago
  High end wheelchairs are the opposite of repairable. A friend of mine has to use one because of his disability. It was the only model that met his particular needs for his disability, and was around 14k when he bought it. He can't even change the battery pack without sending it back to the company. The horn shorted out, and if we had disabled it (he can't even use it), it would've voided the entire warranty. Fuck, one of the wheel spoke things cracked and we couldn't even put a new wheel on it, because they only sell the wheels as part of the lower chassis to the tune of 5k. It's obscenely expensive to have a disability in the US, and these companies take advantage of people who just want to have basic mobility. It's really disgusting.
  • sokoloff 1y ago
    > if we had disabled it (he can't even use it), it would've voided the entire warranty. The Magnuson-Moss Act pretty surely falsifies that claim by the manufacturer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warran...
• miki123211 1y ago
  It'll just make many good wheelchairs unavailable in WA, forcing consumers to buy out of state, import from a foreign company that doesn't care about state laws, or go with a worse product. Since these are presumably financed by the government, the first two options may not even be available to most.