Virginia Tech University developed car for the blind
2011 the prototype to be ready. The vehicle is equipped with "non-visual interfaces. The researchers received support from the American Blind.
Blindenautos prototype of a modified Ford Escape is (image: CC Kmf164/Wikipedia).
The Virginia Tech University and the American Blind working to enable blind people to drive. The prototype – a modified Ford Escape is – in January 2011 at Daytona International Speedway will be presented.
The vehicle uses a variety of sensors, so-called "non-visual interfaces" that transmit the driver information about its environment. "The challenge was not to develop an autonomous vehicle that drives around a blind man in the area," says Dennis Hong, director of the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory at Virginia Tech University. On the contrary: it must allow a blind person to take Fahrentscheidungen itself.
2007, the Virginia Tech University demonstrated in the DARPA Grand Challenge, a competition for unmanned aerial vehicles, for third place. My car was in a position to carry out traffic and obstacles. Organizers of the competition, the technology department of Defense, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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