[Blindtlk] Driverless Cars

[Jude DaShiell]

Actually the only reason flying cars are not in use now is because the 
F.A.A. can't figure out how to control the air space from ground to 200 
feet of altitude.  Economical flying car design has already been 
patented and if that happens, those will be manufactured out of one of 
our New England States.  So no, none of this is beyond the realm of 
possibility.  Does any of it become available to blind people, most 
certainly not.  Not in this lifetime at least.  Accessible medical 
devices aren't the law of the land let alone driverless cars for the 
blind not to mention accessible tv units.  I'm not talking about cable, 
I'm talking about the tv units themselves.  Maybe in two more of my 
lifetimes we get accessible tv units and maybe in another three 
lifetimes after that we get accessible medical devices but I wouldn't 
bet the farm on it.

On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, Carly Mihalakis wrote:

> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 03:09:41
> From: Carly Mihalakis <carlymih at comcast.net>
> To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>,
>     Jen via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Driverless Cars
> 
> 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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