Product design question
How would you design a car sharing platform like Uber for disabled people?
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What this question tests
Product sense for an underserved user segment with specific accessibility needs, not a generic ride hailing redesign.
How to approach it
- Clarify the disability types in scope, for example wheelchair and visually impaired riders, and state you will focus on wheelchair accessibility.
- Identify current pain points, too few wheelchair accessible vehicles, long wait times, and drivers unequipped to assist.
- Propose a dedicated accessible fleet or partnership, with driver training and a clear ETA for accessible requests.
- Address trust, letting riders specify needs in advance so drivers arrive prepared.
- Define success, accessible request fulfillment rate and the wait time gap versus standard rides.
What a strong answer includes
- Names the real bottleneck, insufficient supply of wheelchair accessible vehicles, rather than treating this as a UI problem.
- Proposes a concrete supply fix, partnering with accessible fleets or subsidizing vehicle upgrades in dense cities first.
- Sets a specific metric, closing the wait time gap to within 20 percent of a standard ride.
Common mistakes
- Treating accessibility as an app toggle rather than a supply and training problem.
- Lumping all disabilities together with one generic solution.
- No metric comparing the accessible experience to the standard one.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you fund subsidizing accessible vehicles in low demand cities?
- How would you measure whether drivers are actually trained to assist?
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Learn the skill behind it
Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.
- Chapter 4: Discovery and strategy for AI products
- Chapter 7: AI UX and human oversight: design for a system that is wrong sometimes
- Chapter 14: Get the job: the AI PM interview loop