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Exactly. Which is why people who ate on the opposite end of the extreme, insisting that all cars of all kinds must be banished, are so annoying.
There's no one size fits all system, so stop with the "everyone should just ride the bus or train you don't need cars" rubbish. Neither extreme are correct. We live in the real world.
We should make it such that people don't need cars though.
So how would you get a handicapped person to a specialized doctor in the center of a city with f-ed up public transport?
EDIT: The downvotes show me that you don't have any meaningful answers to that real-world problem.
By investing in better public transport and by investing in public healthcare.
That would be nice, but with that town, this does not seem an option. The mayor is a bit ... bonkers.
Mayors change far more easily and frequently than infrastructure.
Nobody really believes that she'll survive the next election in office.
So, fucked up public transport is a necessity?
No, it just happens that the city I'm talking about has a mayor that has done a bunch of traffic "reforms" for political reasons without thinking or professional guidance. She basically made half-hearted attempts to improve bike traffic (which were not really improvements, neither for bikers, nor for everyone else), didn't do squat for public transport (except that the central bus station is now way worse, and she wants to "start planning an overhaul" in a few years), and the central traffic pipeline, the city ring, is now broken.
Glad you asked. Watch the 1:13 minute mark in this video.
I expected powered wheelchair
I would not want to be too close if my wife tried that. There are reasons she's got no driving licence.
Visual disability? Mental instability?
Visual Disability. Cannot properly estimate distances and speeds. Which is quite a problem for driving anything.
Wow. While inability to estimate speeds has workarounds, I have no idea what to do with inability to estimate distance other than using only public transit or living in city without cars.
Well, we don't live in a city, so we are down to the options "I drive her wherever she needs to go", or long, LONG trips with the occasional public transport.
I don't think anyone is arguing for the complete abolishment of cars, they just don't feel the need to caveat everything anti car they say with of course we still need ambulances etc just in case someone doesn't understand that.