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Waymo's help center says wheelchair-accessible vehicle service is for people who cannot ride in its fully autonomous cars because of a disability that affects how they move, and that those vehicles are driven manually. Putting a folded wheelchair in a driverless car's trunk is a separate option, with sizes Waymo publishes. The Tesla rider-rules PDF we downloaded on Nov 2, 2026 does not describe a wheelchair-accessible vehicle. Utah has no robotaxi service.
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From Waymo's help page "Wheelchair-accessible vehicles," fetched Nov 2, 2026. The page is undated.
Waymo's accessibility-features page says the same thing in short form: "WAVs are manually driven, not autonomous."
So a Waymo WAV trip, as Waymo describes it, has a human driver. It is not a driverless ride.
Waymo's trunk help page, fetched Nov 2, 2026, says the trunk can fit one folded wheelchair:
In that case you move from your chair to a car seat, and the folded chair rides in the trunk. Waymo's WAV page is the page that describes riding while a driver secures the chair. The trunk page is the page that describes a folded chair as cargo.
A staff article on AmeriDisability (Oct 31, 2026) looks at Waymo from riders' point of view. These are AmeriDisability's statements, not Waymo policy:
Not a Tesla App reported on Oct 30, 2026 that Tesla added accessibility features to its Robotaxi app: an improved vehicle-locating arrow, haptic feedback to help riders find the car, and music controls that work with a screen reader. Those are app features, not a wheelchair-accessible vehicle.
Tesla's Robotaxi Rider Rules PDF, downloaded Nov 2, 2026, does not describe a wheelchair-accessible vehicle. A direct request to tesla.com that day returned 403, so this page does not claim we opened every Tesla URL.
As of Nov 2, 2026, Utah has no public robotaxi service. UTA's comments on driverless transit are on the Utah status page. That note is about public transit, not a private robotaxi accessibility plan.
If a service does come to Utah, riders will likely ask whether wheelchair users get the same service or a separate, human-driven one, and whether a power chair can ride. No company page we checked has answered those questions for Utah.
Waymo's help pages do not offer that. Waymo says its wheelchair-accessible vehicles are driven by a person. In a driverless Waymo, Waymo's trunk page says a folded wheelchair can go in the trunk while you ride in a seat.
Waymo says a wheelchair-accessible vehicle is manually driven, not autonomous. Waymo says it is for riders 18 or older who cannot ride in the fully autonomous cars. How you request one depends on the city.
AmeriDisability (Oct 31, 2026) says not yet, because current vehicles cannot take non-folding power chairs. That is AmeriDisability's statement, not a Waymo policy page. Waymo's WAV page says drivers can help secure your chair and you.
No. Not a Tesla App (Oct 30, 2026) described an improved vehicle-locating arrow, haptic feedback, and music controls that work with a screen reader. Those are app features. The Tesla rider-rules PDF we downloaded Nov 2, 2026 does not describe a wheelchair-accessible vehicle.
No. As of Nov 2, 2026, there is no robotaxi service of any kind in Utah.
