<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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. <br><div><div>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.</div><div>Thanks, Cathy.</div><div><br></div><div>Cindy Smith</div><div><br></div><div> On Feb 4, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Cathy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19170"> <div style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"> <div><span class="828134714-04022012"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Good Morning Cindy,</font></span></div> <div><span class="828134714-04022012"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div> <div><span class="828134714-04022012"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">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.</font></span></div> <div><span class="828134714-04022012"></span> </div> <div><span class="828134714-04022012"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Cathy</font> </span></div> <div dir="ltr" class="OutlookMessageHeader" align="left"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">-----Original Message-----<br><b>From:</b> nfbk-bounces@nfbnet.org [<a href="mailto:nfbk-bounces@nfbnet.org">mailto:nfbk-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>]<b>On Behalf Of </b>cindy smith<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, February 04, 2012 9:06 AM<br><b>To:</b> NFB of Kentucky Internet Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nfbk] Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future IsHere | Magazine<br><br></font></div>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><br></div> <div>Cindy</div> <div><br></div> <div><br> <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; 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; 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; 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; 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><br></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><br></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></body></html>