[nabs-l] Straight Talk about Vision Loss: The Blind Driver Challenge

[alena roberts]

That was a great episode. I love myth busters. Here's the blog post I
wrote about that exact episode.

http://www.blindgal.com/2008/10/so-who-is-going-to-let-me-drive-their.html

It even talks about races that are put on to raise money for the blind
that use blind drivers.

Alena

On 5/21/09, Jim Reed <jim275_2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> When I read this post, I immediatly thought of the TV show "MythBusters" on
> the Discovery Channel. For those of you unfamiliar with the show, the whole
> point of the show is to scientificly and empericly test the validity of
> urban legends and myths.
>
>
> In one episode, they tested a urban ledgend that after a night of drinking,
> a drunken sighted person convinced his sober(er) blind friend to drive. The
> blind driver was following the instructions of the sighted person. They got
> pulled over.
>
> Anyhow, MythBusters tested this. They got a totally blind guy to drive on a
> closed course using one of the Mythbusters as a sighted guide. The pair
> worked so well together that they moved the experement onto the open road
> where the pair once again passed with flying colors.
>
> Then to test the other half of this legend, they had the sighted guide get
> drunk prior to serving as the blind driver's sighted guide. They did
> considerably worse on the closed course, and did not attempt the open road.
>
>
> From: "Rob Lambert" <rmlambert1987 at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 1:32 AM
>
>
>> In case anyone is interested, this YouTube video from the NFB explains a
>> brand new interface in which the blind can actually make real life driving
>>
>> decisions. This is a concept that is half autonomous and half human input.
>>
>> THey also talk about this technology being used for spin-off applications.
>>
>> This is very interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyVpLI52vWE
>
>
>
>
>
> Homer Simpson's brain: "Use reverse psychology."
>  Homer: "Oh, that sounds too complicated."
>  Homer's brain: "Okay, don't use reverse psychology."
>  Homer: "Okay, I will!"
>
>
>
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-- 
Alena Roberts
Blog: http://www.blindgal.com/