By Bal Brach, CBC News, October 3, 2016
“I grew up around cars … my dream has always been to drive”
An 18-year-old UBC student living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, is the first person in Canada to drive using a state-of-the-art electronic Swiss driving system that allows people with minimal hand function to control a vehicle with a single joystick.
“For a while there before the disability actually came to be a little more, I started thinking maybe I won’t be able to drive,” said Shaan Lail.
