You know your stuff. Something like a Nissan Note has a perfect seat height for me to 'swivel' into, whereas whenever I get into or out of my friend's MX5 it's like I'm on bloomin' Gladiators!
Aye it's the sort of thing most of the people that complain about the motorbility scheme etc never consider.
It's amazing how people's attitudes can change however if they have even just a relatively short term injury but suddenly find they can't get into their car easily...(one of my mum's friends was suddenly a lot more understanding of the problems with getting into a car after she hurt her knee and found it very painful to get into a lot of cars).
I know about it because my mum has a very bad hip, which has made me consider stuff most people don't think twice about (is a standard loo too low? If so how to solve it without using one of those useless frames for a very basic example*), or is the front door step big enough for her to stand on with her crutches? (most aren't)
Lukefinch.
That's one of the changes I can understand the reasoning behind to a degree (insurance for under 21's could take up most of the mobility allowance on it's own!), but is very bad news for people like your mother and you, where the only available driver is someone under 21, of which there are from memory a huge number in the UK
I can't remember the stats, but there was a programme about it on the BBC a while back, that made the point there are tens of thousands of people for whom their main carer is actually a child (or at least under 18).
I would have hoped they could have come up with some compromise for situations where the only practical driver was under 21, either by limiting the cars a bit, or something like a GPS tracker to discourage the youngsters from abusing it.
It's a change that is likely to end up costing the local health authorities a fortune in hospital transport fees alone if under 21's can no longer take a parent to the hospital in a mobility car.
*We've had to redecorate/organise virtually everything in the house to make life easier for my mum - including raising sockets in the Lounge so she didn't have to use extension leads (cables on the floor are bad....), to be able to even just plug a hair dryer in, and even the likes of the stairlift are a nightmare at times (if it fails when she's on it, she's completely stuffed without someone around).