This certainly would be very interesting. I haven't really heard or read very much of anything, due to the fact that I myself find myself extremely occupied more or less on the daily basis. When I'm not going to school, I kind of just chill out and try to either run my own errands out of the house and usually when I'm in the public transit system, I like to get lost in my favorite music. Otherwise, if I stay home, I try my best to try and catch up with important email, or I just play my mud client game. It certainly does think a few questions though. How safe and how credible could a project like this be especially for those of us with no vision? There are many more that can come to my mind at the moment, but I can't really think of writing them, as I'm barely starting my day myself. Either way though, I have posted this on various places and if they do turn out to be well equipped and well established, I might consider going to try one of them myself. I hope these thoughts don't sound too general or two simple. Blessings to all of you
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 18, 2015, at 08:06, Scott Granados <scott.grana...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Oh I think sited users will do just fine. There are screens where the > windows would be so they will still be able to see outside. It’s just now > they will have night vision and infrared as well as the regular optical > spectrum. Depends on how good the screens are I guess. I used to work next > to Dolby labs and got a tour once. They had a demonstration of a window that > looked outside and then a screen mounted in the wall that looked exactly the > same shape / size as the real window and the demonstration was you had to > guess which one was real and which was a screen. Most people couldn’t tell > the difference. So if they have technology like that probably sited users > won’t mind if it’s a glass screen instead of a glass window. Only difference > is you can’t roll it down. That being said though the car would be much > safer because it doesn’t have all the cutout spots for windows and viewing > areas. You can use solid metal panels and have a lot more rigidity and > structural stability with out the window so crashes should be safer. > > > >> On Sep 18, 2015, at 10:50 AM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: >> >> Wow, that design does sound pretty hideous. However, I don't think the lack >> of windows will stand. I don't think cited users would put up with that for >> a minute! >> >> It is interesting what Google has done. Always good to have choices! >> Cheers, >> Donna >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Sep 18, 2015, at 8:01 AM, Scott Granados <scott.grana...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Dona, has anyone described to you what this prototype car looks like? >>> There were some photos leaked a while back, who knows since they are rumors >>> but they basically had a pod that had 4 wheels (it’s not a 3 wheeler like >>> some models) and it had no (0) windows. Think about that for a minute. >>> What it did have were screens and cameras and a ton of autonomous driving >>> features. >>> You’d also be interested in what Google is doing. They have already had >>> blind folks operating their autonomous vehicles for a while now. I believe >>> that one of the engineers on the project is blind but I haven’t been able >>> to come up with a name. I saw a special on CNBC about a year ago and can’t >>> recall the gentleman’s name they had who was using the car to get to and >>> from work and to the store etc. It would drop him off in front of the >>> grocery store door, he’d do his thing and come out and hit a key fob that >>> would summon the car that had parked it self and it pulled up and picked >>> him up. >>> >>> Never thought I’d see it in my lifetime, shocks me how far along they >>> actually are. Google has made massive steps forward in machine vision. >>> >>>> On Sep 18, 2015, at 8:21 AM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I just saw this on MacRumors and thought you guys would be interested if >>>> you haven't seen it. I sooooooooooo want to be a test driver! >>>> http://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/18/apple-met-california-dmv-autonomous-vehicle/?utm_source=osx&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=front >>>> >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Donna >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
