[Blindtlk] Driverless Cars

[Carly Mihalakis]

Don't mean to be a nay-sayer but can you see this tech actually 
happening? I sure can't, or at least in not such a way for it's being 
available to all blind people.
CarAt 11:15 PM 1/1/2017, Jude DaShiell via blindtlk wrote:
>You don't drive in a driverless car.  The only things that get in 
>them are passengers and luggage of various types.
>As I understand the technology it's going to be under-designed and 
>that under-design will cost lives.  Not so much of passengers but 
>rather pedestrians. These cars would need to get flight capabilities 
>so that if negotiation of a section of road were temporarily 
>impossible they could lift off for distance sufficient to bypass the 
>obstacles and continue on their way.  Hovercraft technology could do 
>this if it were part of standard design but that'll not be the case 
>for the first vehicles put on the roads.  A school bus and large 
>truck having an accident in an intersection just ahead of a 
>driverless car that happens too soon for the driverless car to take 
>an alternate route to bypass such an accident with children and 
>whatever the truck looses all over the intersection would be one of 
>the scenarios where flight capability would be more than a nice to 
>have feature on a driverless car.
>
>On Sun, 1 Jan 2017, Jen via blindtlk wrote:
>
>>Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 16:22:07
>>From: Jen via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>>To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
>>Cc: Jen <spiderweb1 at sbcglobal.net>
>>Subject: [Blindtlk] Driverless Cars
>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>Happy New Year!
>>
>>What is your opinion of driver-less cars? Personally, I can't wait for their
>>arrival on the road! I'm totally blind from birth and would like the chance
>>to drive, just to feel what it feels like. My best friend, who happens to be
>>sighted, feels otherwise though.
>>
>>How about you?
>>
>>
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