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Group to Show Car That Can Be Driven by the Blind
AP via FoxNews ^
| July 2, 2010
Posted on 07/02/2010 4:58:47 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
WASHINGTON -- Could a blind person drive a car? Researchers are trying to make that far-flung notion a reality.
The National Federation of the Blind and Virginia Tech plan to demonstrate a prototype vehicle next year equipped with technology that helps a blind person drive a car independently.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: automobiles; blind
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
"the car did it"
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posted on
07/02/2010 5:02:45 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN....PLEASE donate, because it's the RIGHT thing to do)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Virginia Tech is well known for its robotics program, but the intelligence to maneuver at highway speeds would be phenomenal.
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posted on
07/02/2010 5:04:35 AM PDT
by
jmcenanly
To: rightwingintelligentsia
I guess this is why they put the Braille on the drive-up ATMs?
ML/NJ
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posted on
07/02/2010 5:04:53 AM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: rightwingintelligentsia
I guess this means there will finally be a use for those Braille placards at the drive-in ATMs.....
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posted on
07/02/2010 5:05:09 AM PDT
by
tgusa
(Investment plan: blued steel, brass, lead, copper)
To: ml/nj
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posted on
07/02/2010 5:05:54 AM PDT
by
tgusa
(Investment plan: blued steel, brass, lead, copper)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
I have deaf friends and they scare me when they drive.
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posted on
07/02/2010 5:06:58 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Great. The drivers who *can* see, don’t see motorcycles now...Will they be texting, too?
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posted on
07/02/2010 5:08:12 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Last years model...
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posted on
07/02/2010 5:08:14 AM PDT
by
C210N
(0bama, Making the world safe for Marxism)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
That reminds me of the movie (I forget the name) where a cop stops a carload of revelers. The driver was blind. Astonished, the cop asks "Why are you guys letting a blind man drive?"
Their reply: "Because he's the only one who's sober."
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posted on
07/02/2010 5:09:37 AM PDT
by
ComputerGuy
(HM2/USN M/3/3 Marines RVN '66-'67)
To: cripplecreek
>> I have deaf friends and they scare me when they drive.
Yelling at them doesn’t help either, does it?
Hey, at least they’re not on their cell phones. ‘Course they could be *texting*... yikes!
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posted on
07/02/2010 5:10:07 AM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Anyone who has ever driven in Montgomery, Al is already aware that blind people drive every day.
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posted on
07/02/2010 5:10:49 AM PDT
by
commish
(Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Let me just be the first to say - This is a FANTASTIC idea.
But why stop at driving? There's no reason blind people shouldn't be flying aircraft of performing heart surgery, either.
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posted on
07/02/2010 5:10:57 AM PDT
by
ConservativeWarrior
(In last year's nests, there are no birds this year.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Possibly the single stupidest plan I ever heard of.
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posted on
07/02/2010 5:11:00 AM PDT
by
djf
To: rightwingintelligentsia
They already have a car for the blind...
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posted on
07/02/2010 5:11:43 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Never trust anyone who points their rear end at God while praying.)
To: commish
Anyone who has ever driven in Montgomery, Al is already aware that blind people drive every day. Birmingham too!
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posted on
07/02/2010 5:17:28 AM PDT
by
6ppc
(It's torch and pitchfork time)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
About the stupidest and resource wasting ideas I have ever heard about. There is not enough bandwidth to explain the potential problems with a sysytem like the one proposed.
To: rightwingintelligentsia
I foresee a future when computer autopilot is mandatory and humans are no longer allowed to drive.
That is, if we're allowed to have cars at all then.
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posted on
07/02/2010 5:20:14 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: cripplecreek
If you’re their Mother-in-law, they may not actually be deaf......
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posted on
07/02/2010 5:25:42 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(Democrats: expediting the Destruction of America, before they lose power...)
To: 101voodoo
About the stupidest and resource wasting ideas I have ever heard about.
Other than Obamacare and Cap and Trade.
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posted on
07/02/2010 5:26:05 AM PDT
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Forcing one person to pay for the irresponsibility of another is NOT social justice.)
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