[Nfbnet-members-list] Fwd: Happy Anniversary of Blind Driver ChallengeAccelerating Our Efforts
David Andrews
dandrews920 at comcast.net
Sat Jan 30 07:09:08 UTC 2021
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>Celebrating Tenth Anniversary of Blind Driver
>ChallengeAccelerating Our Efforts
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>The National Federation of the Blind is
>celebrating the ten year anniversary of the
>Blind Driver Challenge by accelerating it this
>year. We are collaborating with
><https://www.nfb.org/libraries/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=19821&qid=4828176>Dan
>Parker to build and operate a car to attempt to
>break the Guinness Book World Record for the
>Fastest Speed for a Car Driven Blindfolded in
>the fall of 2021, anticipating reaching a speed
>of over two hundred miles perhour.
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>The effort is an acceleration of the NFBs Blind
>Driver Challenge, an initiative in which the
>ability of a blind driver to successfully
>operate an automobile using nonvisual technology
>was demonstrated ten years ago. On January 29,
>2011,
><https://www.nfb.org/libraries/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=19831&qid=4828176>Mark
>Riccobono, now President of the National
>Federation of the Blind, independently operated
>a modified Ford Escape hybrid on the Daytona
>International Speedway, navigating the courses
>turns as well as avoiding dynamic obstacles by
>following haptic prompts generated by inputfrom
>the vehicles GPS, cameras, and LIDAR sensors.
>The goal of the Blind Driver Challenge going
>forward is for the nations blind to share our
>lived experience and expertise in nonvisual
>technology in a collaboration with industry
>leaders to develop nonvisual interfaces so that
>blind people will be able to independently use
>autonomous vehicles to safely navigate daily life.
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>Our Daytona Blind Driver Challenge
>demonstration changed the perceptions of
>blindness held by society, including the
>perceptions that we ourselves held as blind
>people, said Mark Riccobono, President of the
>National Federation of the Blind. It further
>demonstrated to the world that the expertise of
>the blind is critical to the development of
>nonvisual interfaces. We are now accelerating
>the challenge in 2021 because the need for
>urgency in the development and implementation of
>accessibility in emerging technology is even
>greater. We look forward to working with Dan
>Parker and others on innovations thatwill
>enhance the mobility and independence of blind Americans.
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>I am proud and honored to partner with the
>National Federation of the Blind and the Blind
>Driver Challenge to bring the Guinness World
>Record for the fastest blind person in the world
>home to America, said Dan Parker. With the
>work of the Blind Driver Challenge, it was
>demonstrated that a blind person can safely
>drive a vehicle, and I will demonstrate that a
>blind person can safely race a vehicle at over
>two hundred miles per hour. Together we hope to
>inspire the blind youth of today to get involved
>in STEM at their schools. My2008 Corvette is a
>purpose-built race car and I designed every aspect of it.
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>Dan Parker is the first blind person to
>independently drive a vehicle to fifty miles per
>hour, one hundred miles per hour, and one
>hundred fifty miles per hour to this date. His
>Corvette makes over eight hundred horsepower and
>has a custom guidance system that gives him audible feedback.
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>Stay tuned for more exciting details on the
><https://www.nfb.org/libraries/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=19822&qid=4828176>Blind
>Driver Challenge.
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