Till now, I have taught more than 200 people how to drive a car. To persons of all kinds of disabilities, like spinal cord injury, polio, ataxia, hand amputation, leg amputation.

Whatever may be the kind of disability, the way to teach is definitely different, but all can be taught. I have done it.

Hi everyone, my name is Dr Anita Sharma and I am the founder of “Drive on my own” Foundation.

I took this initiative in 2019 that I’ll teach people with disabilities how to drive cars. I’ve taught many people how to drive till date, all in modified cars.

The car I’m sitting in right now is also a modified car and in fact, this is the same car in which I teach everyone how to drive.

Based on the type of disability, we decide the modifications to be done.

And my entire objective is to make people independent.

It takes about seven days to learn how to drive a car. However, if you already know how to drive a car, it takes around 2 or 3 days, as what is required then is a bit of unlearning and relearning.

For example, if there has been an accident and this person already knows how to drive a car, all I need to do is teach them how to modify or about the modifications.
I don’t need to teach them anything else as they already know everything.
My work is rendered really easy this way.

This is the reason why my fees also vary, depending upon whether the person already knows how to drive or does not know.

And we personally invest our time and efforts on each kind of disability. Keeping in mind the disability of the person, their experiences and their family conditions, our training sessions are designed and we teach them how to drive a car.

In the case of many disabilities and in many training sessions, I train them personally when I feel my intervention is required.

So now you can take a t our of my car, and I’ll briefly tell you about the systems inside it.

My car is an automatic one which has an accelerator and a brake.

If you press the right one, that’s the accelerator and if you press the left one it’s the brake.

Now this entire system, the controls are operated by my hand so that I don’t have to use my legs.

I also have a YouTube channel where I post a lot of information regarding what car to buy, how to buy it, what modifications it might need, what kind of concessions can be received, the government rebates you can get and how you can get a car without any modifications, what rules need to be followed in which states.

And I don’t do this alone, I talk to a lot of people and after gathering collective information…these videos are made after collecting and gathering collective information.

At times I invite people on my shows who have had some experiences in different states.

How did they buy a car there?

If they had to litigate a case in court, how did they do it?

We showcase all of this information on our channel.

The name of my channel is “Drive with Anita”. I also release podcasts to motivate people to be independent.

Because we try to do our best to share our mission of independent living with a disability through the collective experiences of numerous people. The idea is to disseminate this knowledge to other people and I also do this through my YouTube Channel too.