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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You sure about that? What about the 2008 plan to elect a no-account communist agitator as president of our fair land?
ever been in Beverly Hills Florida they are all blind and drive. nothing new.
ML/NJ
if they can develop one that can safely be driven by drunks and druggies, maybe we can save thousands of lives a year
This is so stupid. It’s like allowing a drunk person to drive. It would be interesting to see a blind person drive in deer country.
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Or.....allowing the driver to run a game show in downtown traffic.
I already pay over 38% of my auto insurance for ‘uninsured drivers’.
Now I have to pay more for BLIND drivers???
The country has gone mad. Too many years of too many drugs.
The practice of putting braille on ATMs is from the extremely rich blind Jewish community in parts of New York city. They have chauffeurs to drive them around to the ATMs and they do the transaction from the rear seat. I have been told that there are a few that have limousines import from Europe that have the steering wheel on the right hand side of the car. These are able to make their transactions from the front seat.
Or it could be government regulations requiring ALL atm’s to have braille. But that would be boring.
I knew a girl know was legally blind but could dive only during the day if it was not raining. How blind are they talking about?
Even if apocryphal, that’s a good story. Love it!
It isn’t “driven”. The technology drives the car. To say the blind is driving a car in this sense is to say I am flying the commercial airplane when I get on it because it is going where I want to go.
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