[nfbmi-talk] Fw: [Nfbnet-members-list] Blind Man to Take totheRoad at DaytonaInternational Speedway

Sat Jan 29 15:48:57 UTC 2011

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On 1/29/11, jeff crouch <jeffanel at gmail.com> wrote:
> that is cool
>
> On 1/29/11, Marcus Simmons <MarcusSimmons at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Whish I was driving again. Although, I did drive in the "fast lane" on
>> the
>> Indy 500 race track. Unfortunately it was not on race day (smile).
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "J.J. Meddaugh" <jj at bestmidi.com>
>> To: "NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 12:03 AM
>> Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] Fw: [Nfbnet-members-list] Blind Man to Take
>> totheRoad at DaytonaInternational Speedway
>>
>>
>>> The excitement down here is electric right now, and I can't wait for
>>> tomorrow.
>>> It should be on the speed channel on cable and you can listen to the
>>> demo
>>> at 11:15 by going to the nfb.org website.
>>> Wish I was driving.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Larry Posont" <president.nfb.mi at gmail.com>
>>> To: "nfbmi List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 7:35 PM
>>> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Fw: [Nfbnet-members-list] Blind Man to Take to
>>> theRoad at DaytonaInternational Speedway
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
>>>> To: <nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 5:14 PM
>>>> Subject: [Nfbnet-members-list] Blind Man to Take to the Road at
>>>> DaytonaInternational Speedway
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>>>> CONTACT:
>>>> Chris Danielsen
>>>> Director of Public Relations
>>>> National Federation of the Blind
>>>> (410) 659-9314, extension 2330
>>>> (410) 262-1281 (Cell)
>>>> cdanielsen at nfb.org
>>>> Blind Man to Take to the Road
>>>> at Daytona International Speedway
>>>> Baltimore, Maryland (January 28, 2011):
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the oldest and largest
>>>> organization of blind people in the nation, announced
>>>> today that Mark Anthony Riccobono, a blind executive who directs
>>>> technology, research, and education programs for the organization,
>>>> will be the first blind
>>>> individual to drive a street vehicle in public.  Mr. Riccobono will
>>>> be behind the wheel of a Ford Escape hybrid equipped with nonvisual
>>>> technology allowing
>>>> a blind person to drive it independently as part of a historic
>>>> demonstration scheduled during pre-race activities leading up to the
>>>> Rolex 24 at the Daytona
>>>> International Speedway.  The demonstration is set to take place at
>>>> 11:30 a.m. EST on January 29.
>>>> Mr. Riccobono said: "I have been blind since the age of five, so I
>>>> never got to try for a driver's license or drive a car without
>>>> another person telling
>>>> me which way to steer.  The NFB's leadership in the Blind Driver
>>>> Challenge(tm) has taken something almost everyone believed was an
>>>> impossible dream and
>>>> turned it into reality.  I am looking forward to getting behind the
>>>> wheel and demonstrating to the world that being blind does not
>>>> prevent me from engaging
>>>> in any activity I choose as long as I am able to get the information
>>>> I need.  This will be a truly historic occasion for my blind brothers
>>>> and sisters
>>>> and for America, and I am humbled and proud to be part of it."
>>>> Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind,
>>>> said: "The sight of a blind individual driving a vehicle without
>>>> assistance from a sighted
>>>> person will shake the foundation of public misconceptions about
>>>> blindness and blind people by showing that even tasks that are
>>>> thought to require vision
>>>> are possible if a blind person has access to information in a
>>>> nonvisual way.  Vision is not a requirement for success.  Capacity,
>>>> imagination, and determination
>>>> are all that is needed, and blind people have all of these qualities."
>>>> Mr. Riccobono was the first director of the Wisconsin Center for the
>>>> Blind and Visually Impaired, a state agency that serves Wisconsin's
>>>> blind children.
>>>> Since coming to the headquarters of the National Federation of the
>>>> Blind in 2003, he has spearheaded many initiatives, including
>>>> educational programs designed
>>>> to engage blind youth in the fields of science, technology,
>>>> engineering, and mathematics.  He currently serves as executive
>>>> director of the NFB Jernigan
>>>> Institute.  He and his wife Melissa, who has worked as a school
>>>> counselor and serves as president of the Maryland affiliate of the
>>>> NFB, live in Baltimore
>>>> with their two small children, Austin and Oriana.
>>>> The NFB Blind Driver Challenge(tm) is a research project of the
>>>> National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute-the only research
>>>> and training facility
>>>> on blindness operated by the blind.  The Jernigan Institute
>>>> challenged universities, technology developers, and other interested
>>>> innovators to establish
>>>> NFB Blind Driver Challenge(tm) (BDC) teams, in collaboration with the
>>>> NFB, to build interface technologies that will empower blind people
>>>> to drive a car
>>>> independently.  The purpose of the NFB Blind Driver Challenge(tm) is
>>>> to stimulate the development of nonvisual interface technology.  The
>>>> Virginia Tech/TORC
>>>> NFB BDC team, under the direction of Dr. Dennis Hong, Director of the
>>>> Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory at Virginia Tech., is the only
>>>> team that has accepted
>>>> the challenge.  The team uses the ByWire XGV(tm) developed by TORC
>>>> technologies as the research platform for the development and testing
>>>> of the nonvisual
>>>> interface technologies that allow a blind person to drive.
>>>> For more information about the NFB, please visit
>>>> www.nfb.org.
>>>>  For our digital news release about the Blind Driver Challenge(tm)
>>>> and the debut of the BDC car at the Rolex 24, including audio and
>>>> video clips for television
>>>> and radio, please visit
>>>> www.DigitalNewsRelease.com/?q=NFB_CarKit.
>>>>
>>>> ###
>>>>
>>>> About the National Federation of the Blind
>>>> With more than 50,000 members, the National Federation of the Blind
>>>> is the largest and most influential membership organization of blind
>>>> people in the United
>>>> States.  The NFB improves blind people's lives through advocacy,
>>>> education, research, technology, and programs encouraging
>>>> independence and self-confidence.
>>>> It is the leading force in the blindness field today and the voice of
>>>> the nation's blind.  In January 2004 the NFB opened the National
>>>> Federation of the
>>>> Blind Jernigan Institute, the first research and training center in
>>>> the United States for the blind led by the blind.
>>>>
>>>>
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