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Independence fund. >> with the track chairs. >> i got involved with them in '08. >> your foundation itself, it gives money, it does what? >> well one of the programs we have is called r.i.s.e. restoring independence supporting empowerment. we want to provide specially adapted housing for wounded vets. mobility devices, track chairs, that kind of thing. >> right. >> adapted vehicles. we want to do things that are going to empower them give them their independence back. >> that's very very very important. you played an amputee in forrest gump and got to talk to some of the vets and got i guess e...

To be modified in order to take somebody in a wheelchair. but this is going to be the first one factory produced to accommodate wheelchair. it's called the mv 1. a door opening is 36 inches wide, 56 inches tall. room for the wheelchair in the front of the vehicle which allows the disabled passenger to sit next to the driver. it was designed with help from the miami project to cure paralysis which is a spinal energy center at the university of miami. the advantages it has over converted vehicles is a conversion can actually affect the vehicle's structural integrity and this is smaller than a ty...