Quadriplegic Races 'Vette From: Product Design & Development - 05/12/2014 By: Ted Theopolis Human performance technologies developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory, along with Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., were on display here May 6 as quadriplegic Sam Schmidt, a former Indy Racing League driver, got back behind the wheel once again. Schmidt controls the car by wearing a ball cap with reflective spheres that is monitored by infrared cameras around the dash board in front of him. He controls the car by moving his head left to drive the car to the left or right to make the car turn right. Schmidt increases speed by moving his head forward and back to increase the set speed by 10 mph each time. He controls braking by a biting down on a pressure sensor he has in his month. The harder he bites, the more the car decelerates or stops. Read the entire article at: http://www.pddnet.com/news/2014/05/quadriplegic-races-vette-help-af-performance-lab Links: Quadriplegic Races 'Vette with Help from AF Performance Lab http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2014/05/quadriplegic-races-vette-help-af-performance-lab Quadriplegic ex-racer to drive at Indianapolis using only his head http://msn.foxsports.com/speed/indycar/quadriplegic-racer-to-drive-at-indianapolis-using-only-his-head/ Hands-Free Corvette on Air Force Test Track (with video starting at 1:32) http://www.wirelessdesignmag.com/videos/2014/05/engineering-newswire-90-hands-free-corvette-air-force-test-track This Quadriplegic Racer Drives a Corvette by Tilting His Head http://www.wired.com/2014/05/sam-schmidt-quadriplegic-driver/