[Blindtlk] The Cost of Independent Travel

[Michelle Medina]

Very true!
I look forward to someday having a car I can drive!
I'm isolated right now as I live in a rural area. With a car I could
come & go as I pleased & go visit family because I could come home
when I was ready, not when my folks were ready.
I could get myself to concerts, to get groceries etc & have no worries
about cabs being to expensive or paying someone else gas or waiting
for someone to get home from work.

On 8/27/10, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
> A number of people here have pointed out problems with developing a
> car that blind persons could drive.  It seems to me that the tone of
> some of these messages, if not the words, is that this is something
> we shouldn't do because of this and that.
>
> For sure, there are lots of problems ahead of us.  However, one can
> choose to see these as challenges and opportunities, not disabling
> problems.  We can always find reasons not to do something.  Doing it
> is harder because we must go against conventional wisdom.  However if
> we had accepted what sighted people said we could do, or not do, all
> along, we would still be in the dark ages, literally and figuratively.
>
> Dave
>
> At 08:32 AM 8/26/2010, you wrote:
>>Hi Ray,
>>
>>I do think you make some good points, and I have thought of these
>>questions myself. I understand the underlying purpose of the
>>project, but there are a lot of problems to be worked out before it
>>is even remotely possible. I do think there are much more productive
>>things that we could be doing with the funds that are being put into
>>this project.
>>
>>I go back and forth on this issue. Mostly though, I wish the
>>organization were putting its money somewhere else.
>>
>>
>
>                          David Andrews:  dandrews at visi.com
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