Self-Driving Cars Can Be A Boon For Those With Disabilities

  • Date: 06-Aug-2020
  • Source: Forbes
  • Sector:Transport
  • Country:Oman
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Self-Driving Cars Can Be A Boon For Those With Disabilities

A new study has begun in Pittsburgh to study the impact of self-driving cars on those with disabilities. I'm going to skip to the end and predict that the result will be overwhelmingly positive.

While I was working on the Google



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Car (Now Waymo) I pushed that we begin with a service for the disabled. That did not happen, but the first big public demonstration involved allowing a local advocate for the blind to run his errands in Google's first prototype. Steve Mahan, the rider, found it incredibly liberating, a taste of being able to go out on his own again with the freedom of a car for the first time since he lost his sight.







Mahan returned later