St. Paul company develops Uber-like service for disabled passengers

John Doan came to the United States as a child refugee from Vietnam, guided through a strange new land and culture by his mother and a doting older sibling.

“He was my caregiver,” said Doan, recalling how older brother Roy “protected me from the bullies, taught me how to ride a bike, and when I was 16, he taught me how to drive a car.”

When Roy was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and dementia in his 30s, Doan watched helplessly as some of those same skills were taken from him. Roy, who is now in his 40s and lives in a halfway house, sometimes becomes disoriented and struggles to get around using public transit.

“There’s situations where he’s gotten lost,” Doan said.

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