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

[cindy smith]

Yes, count me in!  The blind driver challenge, and the drive by Mark  
Ricabono a year ago, were fascinating and exciting, but I didn't know  
there was so much going on mainstream, and the true practicality and  
safety benefits for all people, not just the visually impaired.  Let's  
see, in 8 years, in 2020, I'll be 64, that's not too old to get my  
first driver's license, or, will we still need them? :)
Wow, this is encouraging, not just to be able to get around  
independently, but save on gasoline, pollution, time and stress as  
well as accidents, deaths, and injuries.  Please keep us up to speed,  
Kevin.

Cindy


On Feb 4, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Kevin Pearl wrote:

> Hi Cindy,
> I’m glad to hear these two articles have had an impact on you.  Now  
> you have become part of the “driving” force behind changing things.
>
> Kev
>
>
> From: cindy smith
> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 9:05 AM
> To: NFB of Kentucky Internet Mailing List
> 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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