Texas lawyer building hatchback cars made for people in wheelchairs [Video]

For people in wheelchairs, activities like going to work, the grocery store, or get-togethers with relatives require getting a ride from someone or paying for taxi service. Lawyer-turned-entrepreneur Stacy Zoern was not willing to live with this limitation and now is building a new kind of car in Pflugerville, Texas.

Zoern was an intellectual-property lawyer in Austin, when she began searching for ways to get herself, and others in wheelchairs, mobile again.

Zoern quit her job and began to build her company, Kenguru, which has designed small electric cars specifically for people in wheelchairs.

The cars are 7 feet wide and 5 feet tall. There are no seats, so the driver can simply wheel in through the back of the vehicle. A ramp lifts and lowers automatically when the rear door opens. The steering wheel isn’t a traditional one either. Instead, Zoern transformed it into a set of motorcycle handlebars …