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August 24, 2009
The blind community is one step closer to hitting the roads thanks to a team of Virginia Tech students who have created a “buggy for the blind,” a small vehicle equipped with tools that create a nonvisual “map” drivers use to navigate. Blind teenagers and adults got a chance to drive the buggy last month at the National Federation of the Blind’s Youth Slam.
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1. librar05 - August 25, 2009 at 09:37 am
OK, here's the answer to your patron's question!
2. ksledge - August 25, 2009 at 09:58 am
very nice!
3. dwunsch - September 01, 2009 at 07:32 am
It should be a car for all of us. Humans in general are lousy drivers -- getting angry, rushed, drunk, distracted, sleepy, etc. As long as we're making a car for the blind, let's let it drive for the rest of us, too!