[Blindtlk] Driverless Cars

[Jen]

Hi Jude and Gary,

Thank you for your thought-provoking posts. Someone on another list was
discussing the need for the universal design of appliances, so let's why
can't the universal design approach be used for driverless cars with the
technology already out there? For instance, JAWS and other screen readers
have been out for over a decade now, so why couldn't screen reader
technology be input into driverless cars to guide the potential blind
driver?

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From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jude
DaShiell via blindtlk
Sent: Monday, January 2, 2017 4:05 AM
To: Carly Mihalakis <carlymih at comcast.net>; 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

Actually, the only reason flying cars are not in use now is because the FAA
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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