Could a blind person drive a car? Researchers are trying to make that far-fetched notion a reality. The National Federation of the Blind and Virginia Tech plan to demonstrate a prototype vehicle ...

Could a blind person drive a car? Researchers are trying to make that far-fetched notion a reality. The National Federation of the Blind and Virginia Tech plan to demonstrate a prototype vehicle ...

Layering self-driving technology onto this system would allow people to order a car from a fleet and have the car pick them up. It’s a taxi service without the drivers.

This is Steve. 95% of his vision is gone. He's blind. And he's behind the wheel of this car, travelling perfectly across his neighborhood. It's an amazing ...

Instead of learning to drive, when he was just 14 he helped his dad build a 1970 Mustang — what he calls his dream car. "I wanted to drive my dream car. But I realized I wouldn't be able to do ...

A newly developed driving interface may let blind people independently drive cars on the open road. Designed by engineers at Virginia Tech, the system incorporates various nonvisual cues into the ...

Google's Self-Driving Car for Blind People. medGadget. April 9, 2012 Link Copied. Self-driving cars aren't fundamentally about helping the vision impaired, but they sure would be useful.

Back in 2004, he had issued the Blind Driver Challenge as a way of reaching out to universities research institutions to produce a car suitable for blind people.

20 blind people operated dune buggies designed by engineering students. Aug. 2, 2009— -- Thanks to a team of engineering students, several blind drivers had the chance to test-drive a new car ...

A Ford Escape poking along at 25 mph isn’t usually the most exciting event on the track at the Daytona International Speedway. Consider that the driver is blind, however, and that slow-moving ...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — 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 ...

Three years ago, Virginia Tech accepted the NFB’s Blind Driver Challenge (BDC), in which engineering schools were invited to design non-visual interfaces that would allow blind people to drive.