Case Study: Chairslayer Foundation accelerates accessibility for disabled drivers with SOLIDWORKS

Chairslayer Foundation Accelerates Accessibility with SOLIDWORKS

Chairslayer Foundation, led by driver Rob Parsons, set out to enable people with spinal injuries to race drift cars after Parsons’ 2011 accident left him unable to walk. Faced with no existing hand-control solutions and the challenge of fitting controls and a roll cage to accommodate drivers getting in and out of the car, the foundation needed a way to design, test and validate custom accessibility systems efficiently. The vendor used: SOLIDWORKS.

Using SOLIDWORKS, Parsons designed and validated a hand-controlled clutch and braking system that can disengage the clutch in 95 milliseconds and engineered a strengthened roll cage by importing 3D scans of the chassis into the software to build around the actual interior geometry. SOLIDWORKS sped development, reduced physical prototyping, produced a safer, high-performance control system, and helped the Chairslayer Foundation bring disabled drivers onto the track and transform participants’ lives.

Chairslayer Foundation

Rob Parson

Chairslayer Foundation