[Nfbk] Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future IsHere | Magazine

[cindy smith]

Thanks, Cathy.  I should have known the NFB was already working on  
bringing all the cutting edge R and D together.  This article was an  
eye opener for me, I had no idea there are now self driving cars  
working in at least California.
 From reading this article and the one by Molly Wood also, I'm being  
persuaded of the safety benefits as well as less traffic problems  
being experienced with computer driven cars.  My initial uneducated  
feeling was more like, " I don't trust computers driving cars."   
However, I'm sure most accidents by far are caused by human errors.   
This is very interesting indeed.
Thanks, Cathy.

Cindy Smith

  On Feb 4, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Cathy wrote:

> Good Morning Cindy,
>
> Actually, NFB is trying to bring together technology developed by  
> others. That's why we have issued a challenge to engineers, colleges  
> and others to work with us on developing a car that can be used by  
> blind people and other drivers. A great deal of the technology in  
> our car is already on cars being driven by the public; over-rides  
> etc. Some manufacturers have looked at our technology and no doubt  
> one day it will be standard on all cars. We are already developing  
> our second prototype. Obviously there is much more to learn and  
> develop.
>
> Cathy
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [Nfbk] Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the  
> Future IsHere | Magazine
>
> This was Very interesting, Kevin.  The first thing I thought of  
> while reading this was, "What about the blind driver challenge, all  
> the research and technology going into that project?"  Sure seems  
> like things would go faster at less cost if All the R&D came  
> together for the common goal.   Hmmmmmm.
> Thanks, Kev.
>
> Cindy
>
>
> On Feb 3, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Kevin Pearl wrote:
>
>> The object, vaguely pink, sits on the shoulder of the freeway,  
>> slowly shimmering into view. Is it roadkill? A weird kind of  
>> sagebrush? No, wait, it’s … a puffy chunk of foam insulation! “The  
>> laser almost certainly got returns off of it,” says Chris Urmson,  
>> sitting behind the wheel of the Prius he is not driving. A note is  
>> made (FOD: foreign object or debris, lane 1) as we drive past, to  
>> help our computerized car understand the curious flotsam it has  
>> just seen.
>>
>> It’s a Monday, midday, and we are heading north on California  
>> Highway 85 in a Google autonomous vehicle. In October 2010, when  
>> The New York Timesreported that Google had built a fleet of self- 
>> driving cars that had already collectively traversed some 140,000  
>> miles of California asphalt, it came as a shock, a terrestrial  
>> Sputnik. Now the cars, with their whirling rooftop laser arrays,  
>> are as familiar in the Bay Area as the company’s camera-crowned  
>> Street View vehicles. Indeed, the two are often confused, which is  
>> presumably why the words “self-driving car” have recently been  
>> plastered on this one’s driver-side door.
>>
>> read the entire article at:
>>
>> http://m.wired.com/magazine/2012/01/ff_autonomouscars/
>>
>>
>>
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