[Nfb-cars] Gaining experience with driving

[David Evans]

Dear Brian,

I beg to differ.  The day is close at hand , and proto-types already exist, 
of vehicles that can drive themselves.  The U.S.Military already has a 
mandate to make 33% of all of its vehicles autonomist by the year 2015.
They have been in the testing phase for over 10 years.
It will not be far away that cars will be fully able to drive themselves, 
independent of human interaction.  When this comes, the Blind will be able 
to "drive" their own cars.
The most dangerous thing in a car are the human beings that drive them. 
Computers follow rules and people don't.  People get tired, careless, take 
risks and make mistakes or bad decisions.
Cars in the future will be able to navigate, safely, in any environment and 
will communicate constantly with all of the other cars around it, so that 
each computer will know where every other car is going and what they plan to 
do.
The cars will be able to react much faster to situation than humans and even 
handle emergency situations that crop up, mostly because of the actions of 
humans.
The insurance companies will be all for this as it should reduce traffic 
accidents and as all actions will be recorded automatically by an on-board 
"Black Box" recorder, as many cars already have, there should be less 
lawsuits and damage claims.
The military has the deep pockets for the research, but the spin offs will 
follow as the technology goes into use by the commercial sector, mostly in 
long and short haul trucking, delivery services and finally the private 
owners; us.

David Evans, NFBF


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Schulz" <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Classics,antiques and rods division mailing list" <nfb-cars at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 1:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-cars] Gaining experience with driving


> hi,
>
> speaking of something like this, i think blind people should know how a 
> car
> works in case the person they are with has a heart attack or something.
> the person should pretend they are physically unable to operate the car 
> and
> the blind person could practice pulling the foot off of the gas
> pedal/pushing the shifter to neutral and getting down to a slower speed 
> and
> moving onto the shoulder.
>
> on the other hand, dr. mauer went overboard in believing the
> public/insurance companies would allow blind people to drive or a car will
> be built that will allow a blind person to drive.
> half or more of the time, a driver has to react to the unexpected and a
> system that depends on timing or sensors wouldn't avoid a potential wreck.
> Bryan Schulz
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Reinhard Stebner" <reinhard.stebner at gmail.com>
> To: "'Classics, antiques and rods division mailing list'"
> <nfb-cars at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 12:34 AM
> Subject: [Nfb-cars] Gaining experience with driving
>
>
>>I have heard of totally blind people obtain quality driving lessons from
>>the
>> following website:
>>
>> http://www.blindcooltech.com/
>> Look for the article entitled:
>> "CCB And Master Drive"
>>
>> I would like to do this, but am unsure how I could even go about doing 
>> it.
>>
>>
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