Thursday, 29 March 2012

Secular Café: Google Car let's Blind Man Drive to Taco Bell

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Google Car let's Blind Man Drive to Taco Bell
Mar 30th 2012, 00:51

Where else would you go, right? :dunno: :D

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Google's self-driving car takes blind man to Taco Bell

Google's self-driving car recently took a legally blind man for a ride to Taco Bell and to the dry cleaners. (Google YouTube channel / March 29, 2012)
By Salvador Rodriguez

March 29, 2012, 12:05 p.m.

Google's self-driving car has fascinated our minds with its technological promise since being introduced in 2010. But yesterday, the self-driving car touched our hearts.

Google posted a video of the self-driving car taking a legally blind man for a spin, showing one of the possibilities and benefits that could come from the technology.

"Where this would change my life is to give me the independence and the flexibility to go to the places I both want to go and need to go when I need to do those things," Steve Mahan says in the video.

The self-driving car takes Mahan to Taco Bell for a quick meal and a dry cleaner to pick up his clothes.

"Look, Ma, no hands," Mahan says. "No hands, no feet."
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http://www.latimes.com/business/tech...ry?track=icymi

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