[Quietcars] Blind driver takes Google car for a spin

[Robert Wilson]

This is the title to a recent article from MSNBC:http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/01/10943531-blind-driver-takes-google-car-for-a-spin
Quoting:
"A blind guy driving a car? That was the latest step in Google's two-year-old program to develop a self-driving car.A video released last week on YouTube shows Steve Mahan, who is almost totally blind, behind the wheel of a Toyota Prius, running errands to Taco Bell and the dry cleaners."Look Ma, no hands, and no feet!" Mahan says as the car steers autonomously along a carefully planned route. "This is some of the best driving I've ever done."Google announced its self-driving car project in 2010, building on research started by a StanfordUniversity that won a $2 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency challenge. . . ."
A subset of these sensors is the basis of accident avoidance systems that protect both the driver and pedestrians. Never tired, sleepy or distracted, these automated systems can (and will eventually) make a substantial reduction in accidents and their resulting fatalities and injuries.
Bob Wilson