That will put guide dogs out of business. If they learn to cook I might get rid of the wife... ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Leavens To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 5:23 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] DARPA Urban Grand Challenge
My point was that one reason I don't prefer using a taxi is that I can never be certain exactly where they drop me off. I can of course enlist the assistance of the driver because the taxi has a driver. I suppose the car could tell me that it is parked behind two other vehicles which have arrived before and so the door is about 40 feet forward and off the sidewalk by another ten feet. Now a guide bot! That would be something. A device with optical recognition capable of reading signs, notices, bus labels along with all those other guidance mechanisms. Something strong enough to carry a box of beer or two, now that would be useful. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:54 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] DARPA Urban Grand Challenge > Just wait until your new automated automobile parks you in the far > corner of the mal parking lot or you have to try finding your way from > the secured parking area on the 24th level of the airport parking garage > to the departures lounge in the third airport terminal. > You are not thinking robotic enough. Why should the car park in the lot while you fly off to wherever? The car drops you off at the main door, then either drives home, or drives itself to the lot. You then just make a phone call, punch in a code, and the car comes and picks you up. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
