Blind Man Drives Car Independently - Avoids Dynamic Obstacles
From: National Federation for the Blind - 01/29/2011

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.  

Submitted by Nicole B. Torcolini

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