<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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? :)<div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Cindy</div><div><br></div><div> <br><div><div>On Feb 4, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Kevin Pearl wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space" dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <div>Hi Cindy, </div> <div>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. </div> <div> </div> <div>Kev</div> <div> </div> <div style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"> <div style="FONT: 10pt tahoma"> <div> </div> <div style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5"> <div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="cindy.smith8109@aol.com" href="mailto:cindy.smith8109@aol.com">cindy smith</a> </div> <div><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, February 04, 2012 9:05 AM</div> <div><b>To:</b> <a title="nfbk@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:nfbk@nfbnet.org">NFB of Kentucky Internet Mailing List</a> </div> <div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nfbk] Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future IsHere | Magazine</div></div></div> <div> </div></div> <div style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">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. <div>Thanks, Kev.</div> <div> </div> <div>Cindy</div> <div> </div> <div> <div> </div> <div> <div>On Feb 3, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Kevin Pearl wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <blockquote type="cite"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div></div><p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1em; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><strong style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; PADDING-TOP: 0px">The object, vaguely pink,</strong> 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.</p><p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1em; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">It’s a Monday, midday, and we are heading north on California Highway 85 in a Google autonomous vehicle. In October 2010, when <em style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-STYLE: italic; MARGIN: 0px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">The New York Times</em>reported 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.</p> <div>read the entire article at:</div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://m.wired.com/magazine/2012/01/ff_autonomouscars/">http://m.wired.com/magazine/2012/01/ff_autonomouscars/</a></div> <div><br><br><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Nfbk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Nfbk@nfbnet.org">Nfbk@nfbnet.org</a><br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbk_nfbnet.org">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbk_nfbnet.org</a><br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Nfbk:<br>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbk_nfbnet.org/cindy.smith8109%40aol.com</blockquote></div> <div> </div></div><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><hr> _______________________________________________<br>Nfbk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Nfbk@nfbnet.org">Nfbk@nfbnet.org</a><br>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbk_nfbnet.org<br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Nfbk:<br>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbk_nfbnet.org/kvnprl%40insightbb.com</div></div></div></div> _______________________________________________<br>Nfbk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Nfbk@nfbnet.org">Nfbk@nfbnet.org</a><br>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbk_nfbnet.org<br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Nfbk:<br>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbk_nfbnet.org/cindy.smith8109%40aol.com</blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>