Blind Driver Challenge
Blind driver challenge from august of 2010 to may of 2011 i worked on the blind driver challenge project in virginia tech s robotics and mechanisms laboratory romela.
Blind driver challenge. And poetry for social change by aaron henkin may 29 2015 we talk with will holman author of guerilla furniture design. Explained in more detail here is to provide more freedom to blind people by equipping a car with systems that will allow them to drive independently. How easy is it to drive blind.
Our team of twelve seniors makes every effort to design build test and implement numerous non visual driver interfaces onto a vehicle platform that would achieve this goal. Find out in the blind driver challenge. The purpose of the nfb blind driver challenge is to stimulate non visual technological innovation through the nfb jernigan institute.
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Plus poetry from abdul ali and shahem. The goal of the blind driver challenge bdc. The blind driver challenge a collaboration between the nfb and virginia tech is changing that reality.
To establish a path of technological advancement for nonvisual access technology and close the gap between access technology and general technology. The automobile s robotics technology created by dennis hong a professor at virginia tech is designed with various sensors that signal the visually impaired to command the vehicle. The goals of this initiative are.
Bloomberg tv s sheila dharmarajan reports on the blind driver challenge a vehicle prototype that allows blind people to drive. The goal of the challenge was to develop technology that would give a blind person enough information through nonvisual interfaces to make the same decisions a sighted driver would make in order to safely and confidently pilot a car. The blind driver challenge was created in response to an initiative by the national federation of the blind jernigan institute to create a vehicle that a blind person could independently operate.
