[Blindtlk] Driverless Cars

Tue Jan 3 22:08:22 UTC 2017

I don't trust tech. Uber is cheaper than a taxi and more universal than other mass transit.

Ericka Short
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> On Jan 3, 2017, at 3:13 PM, Carly Mihalakis via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Because blind people don't need to be driving! Hasn't yet been done because such a  preposterous notion hasn't until now, occurred to any blind people, I guess. At 12:03 PM 1/2/2017, Jen via blindtlk wrote:
>> 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?
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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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