I drive like my body and my limitations leave me to do it. After my accident, I discovered that to do a roundabout in the road car, you don't have to grab the steering wheel, you can use friction to turn.
Everything in my house has had to be specially adapted, from the height of the bed to the positioning of doorknobs. Even my Rolls Royce had special stacked pedals and an extra-low steering wheel.
My father did shape me. He didn't drive because he had one leg, and for years I never drove. I had no mobility.
You put a car on the road which may be driving by the letter of the law, but compared to the surrounding road users, it's acting very conservatively. This can lead to situations where the autonomous car is a bit of a fish out of water.
Cities like New Delhi for example, where traffic is dense and it's a more fluid driving environment, that's hard for self-driving technology to deal with.
I think you need to be able to adjust to the required circumstances and adjust your driving style.
I've done this in karting, to do one track in one way and then do it the other way.
It's important for automated cars to be able to drive in a human-like fashion - and that does mean adapting to the driving patterns around you.
I have always had a very smooth driving style. But when I started competing as a disabled driver, I had to take that even more to the extreme.
Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.
Having no legs doesn't mean you can't drive fast and I wasn't going to be happy scoring the odd point. I thought it was possible to win and went for it.
