Re: [Audyssey] Blind Man Drives Car Independently
You can't land an aircraft at a parking area. You could land it on a field, but only if the field is large. - Original Message - From: Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net To: birdlover2...@hotmail.com; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 4:55 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Blind Man Drives Car Independently Cars are used by more people due to the expense and the fact that cars are easier to park in parking lots at work and such. --- Laughter is the best medicine, so look around, find a dose and take it to heart. - Original Message - From: Alfredo_The_Music_maker birdlover2...@hotmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 9:24 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Blind Man Drives Car Independently There ought to be one for flying a plane blind. I am more into planes than cars and ground vehicles. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Blind Man Drives Car Independently
Have you heard of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_AV-8B_Harrier_IIHarrierhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_AV-8B_Harrier_II jump jet or helicopter? can put them all in two car spot parking or driveway. At 11:46 AM 1/31/2011, you wrote: You can't land an aircraft at a parking area. You could land it on a field, but only if the field is large. - Original Message - From: Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net To: birdlover2...@hotmail.com; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 4:55 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Blind Man Drives Car Independently Cars are used by more people due to the expense and the fact that cars are easier to park in parking lots at work and such. --- Laughter is the best medicine, so look around, find a dose and take it to heart. - Original Message - From: Alfredo_The_Music_maker birdlover2...@hotmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 9:24 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Blind Man Drives Car Independently There ought to be one for flying a plane blind. I am more into planes than cars and ground vehicles. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. Tim trouble Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. --Sam Brown Blindeudora list owner. To subscribe or info: http://www.freelists.org/webpage/blindeudora --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Blind Man Drives Car Independently
Wow. That's spectacalur. - Original Message - From: Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net To: Ken the Crazy kenwdow...@neo.rr.com; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 2:58 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Blind Man Drives Car Independently Hi Folks, The NFB introduced this car as a game simulation in last year's July convention. Blind Man Drives Car Independently Avoids Dynamic Obstacles Daytona Beach, Florida (January 29, 2011): The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the oldest and largest organization of blind people in the nation, announced today that for the first time a blind individual has driven a street vehicle in public without the assistance of a sighted person. Mark Anthony Riccobono, a blind executive who directs technology, research, and education programs for the organization, was behind the wheel of a Ford Escape hybrid equipped with nonvisual technology and successfully navigated 1.5 miles of the road course section of the famed track at the Daytona International Speedway. The historic demonstration was part of pre-race activities leading up to the Rolex 24 At Daytona this morning. Mr. Riccobono not only successfully navigated the several turns of the road course but also avoided obstacles, some of which were stationary and some of which were thrown into his path at random from a van driving in front of him. Later he successfully passed the van without collision. The Ford Escape was equipped with laser range-finding censors that conveyed information to a computer inside the vehicle, allowing it to create and constantly update a three-dimensional map of the road environment. The computer sent directions to vibrating gloves on the driver's hands, indicating which way to steer, and to a vibrating strip on which he was seated, indicating when to speed up, slow down, or stop. Mr. Riccobono said: The NFB's leadership in the Blind Driver ChallengeT has taken something almost everyone believed was an impossible dream and turned it into reality. It was thrilling for me to be behind the wheel, but even more thrilling to hear the cheers from my blind brothers and sisters in the grandstands; today all of the members of the NFB helped drive us forward. It is for them and for all blind Americans that the National Federation of the Blind undertook this project to show that blind people can do anything that our sighted friends and colleagues can do as long as we have access to information through nonvisual means. Today we have demonstrated that truth to the nation and the world. http://www.blinddriverchallenge.org/bdcg/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEWID=760 Blind Driver To Debut New Technologies At Daytona by The Associated Press Mark Riccobono talks with Anil Lewis of the National Federation of the Blind at the Daytona Speedway Wednesday Jan. 26, 2011. Riccobono is blind and he is using nonvisual technologies to drive a car. ( Mark Riccobono climbs into a vehicle to test nonvisual technologies Wednesday Jan. 26, 2011 at Daytona International Speedway. Riccobono is blind and was selected to drive the vehicle by the National Federation of the Blind as part of its Blind Driver Challenge. The challenge encouraged universities and colleges to create technology that would assist blind people to drive. ( DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. January 28, 2011, 11:11 am ET It's a cloudy morning at Daytona International Speedway, but Mark Riccobono can't tell, nor does it really matter to him. He walks up to the driver's side of a black, Ford Escape Hybrid parked on the start-finish line, opens the door, sits down and adjusts his seat. After a few minutes the car revs up and takes off. None of that's unusual at one of the meccas of motorsports racing, except for one thing: Riccobono is blind. Saturday, Riccobono will take part in a public demonstration, driving independently with the help of new nonvisual technology and a specially modified car. The event, spearheaded by the the National Federation of the Blind, is part of the pre-race activities of Saturday's Rolex 24 event at Daytona. Riccobono will drive a portion of the same course as the drivers in the race. I pretty much shut out the idea that driving was possible, because I didn't want to focus on that aspect of something I couldn't do, said Riccobono, 34, who has been legally blind since age 5 and was selected from a group of test drivers to be behind the wheel Saturday. But I think this project is a clear example that when you dream big and put your heart and resources into it, you get to unimagined places. The NFB, an advocacy group of more than 50,000 members, hatched the idea a decade ago. In 2004 it began the Blind Driver Challenge through its Jernigan Institute. The challenge encouraged partnerships with universities and manufacturers to create technology that would enable a blind driver to safely operate a vehicle. Saturday's event has been
Re: [Audyssey] Blind Man Drives Car Independently
There ought to be one for flying a plane blind. I am more into planes than cars and ground vehicles. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Blind Man Drives Car Independently
Cars are used by more people due to the expense and the fact that cars are easier to park in parking lots at work and such. --- Laughter is the best medicine, so look around, find a dose and take it to heart. - Original Message - From: Alfredo_The_Music_maker birdlover2...@hotmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 9:24 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Blind Man Drives Car Independently There ought to be one for flying a plane blind. I am more into planes than cars and ground vehicles. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] Blind Man Drives Car Independently
Hi Folks, The NFB introduced this car as a game simulation in last year's July convention. Blind Man Drives Car Independently Avoids Dynamic Obstacles Daytona Beach, Florida (January 29, 2011): The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the oldest and largest organization of blind people in the nation, announced today that for the first time a blind individual has driven a street vehicle in public without the assistance of a sighted person. Mark Anthony Riccobono, a blind executive who directs technology, research, and education programs for the organization, was behind the wheel of a Ford Escape hybrid equipped with nonvisual technology and successfully navigated 1.5 miles of the road course section of the famed track at the Daytona International Speedway. The historic demonstration was part of pre-race activities leading up to the Rolex 24 At Daytona this morning. Mr. Riccobono not only successfully navigated the several turns of the road course but also avoided obstacles, some of which were stationary and some of which were thrown into his path at random from a van driving in front of him. Later he successfully passed the van without collision. The Ford Escape was equipped with laser range-finding censors that conveyed information to a computer inside the vehicle, allowing it to create and constantly update a three-dimensional map of the road environment. The computer sent directions to vibrating gloves on the driver's hands, indicating which way to steer, and to a vibrating strip on which he was seated, indicating when to speed up, slow down, or stop. Mr. Riccobono said: The NFB's leadership in the Blind Driver ChallengeT has taken something almost everyone believed was an impossible dream and turned it into reality. It was thrilling for me to be behind the wheel, but even more thrilling to hear the cheers from my blind brothers and sisters in the grandstands; today all of the members of the NFB helped drive us forward. It is for them and for all blind Americans that the National Federation of the Blind undertook this project to show that blind people can do anything that our sighted friends and colleagues can do as long as we have access to information through nonvisual means. Today we have demonstrated that truth to the nation and the world. http://www.blinddriverchallenge.org/bdcg/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEWID=760 Blind Driver To Debut New Technologies At Daytona by The Associated Press Mark Riccobono talks with Anil Lewis of the National Federation of the Blind at the Daytona Speedway Wednesday Jan. 26, 2011. Riccobono is blind and he is using nonvisual technologies to drive a car. ( Mark Riccobono climbs into a vehicle to test nonvisual technologies Wednesday Jan. 26, 2011 at Daytona International Speedway. Riccobono is blind and was selected to drive the vehicle by the National Federation of the Blind as part of its Blind Driver Challenge. The challenge encouraged universities and colleges to create technology that would assist blind people to drive. ( DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. January 28, 2011, 11:11 am ET It's a cloudy morning at Daytona International Speedway, but Mark Riccobono can't tell, nor does it really matter to him. He walks up to the driver's side of a black, Ford Escape Hybrid parked on the start-finish line, opens the door, sits down and adjusts his seat. After a few minutes the car revs up and takes off. None of that's unusual at one of the meccas of motorsports racing, except for one thing: Riccobono is blind. Saturday, Riccobono will take part in a public demonstration, driving independently with the help of new nonvisual technology and a specially modified car. The event, spearheaded by the the National Federation of the Blind, is part of the pre-race activities of Saturday's Rolex 24 event at Daytona. Riccobono will drive a portion of the same course as the drivers in the race. I pretty much shut out the idea that driving was possible, because I didn't want to focus on that aspect of something I couldn't do, said Riccobono, 34, who has been legally blind since age 5 and was selected from a group of test drivers to be behind the wheel Saturday. But I think this project is a clear example that when you dream big and put your heart and resources into it, you get to unimagined places. The NFB, an advocacy group of more than 50,000 members, hatched the idea a decade ago. In 2004 it began the Blind Driver Challenge through its Jernigan Institute. The challenge encouraged partnerships with universities and manufacturers to create technology that would enable a blind driver to safely operate a vehicle. Saturday's event has been in the developmental phase for the past three years thanks to the NFB's partnership with Virginia Tech's College of Engineering and TORC Technologies. The students developed the equipment Riccobono will use. TORC integrated those into a working vehicle. Several Virginia Tech
Re: [Audyssey] Blind Man Drives Car Independently
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