{"id":6393,"date":"2011-07-18T17:02:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T17:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6393"},"modified":"2011-07-18T17:02:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T17:02:12","slug":"blind-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6393","title":{"rendered":"Blind Drivers?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s quite frightening, but they are being serious<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article reports that blind people were put behind the wheel of manual cars on a test track in Cologne. For some inexplicable reason, it is deemed boastworthy that the fastest one of these blind drivers got the car “up to 74mph”.<\/p>\n

The article suggests:<\/p>\n

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Teaching the blind to drive is an increasingly realistic goal as cameras and sensors become sophisticated and cheap enough that they might one day substitute for sight. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The rough translation of this is as follows: having cameras and computers reliable enough to be a substitute for sight is many, many years off – even if it happens at all<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ford apparently saw the event as “empowering blind and visually impaired drivers”.<\/p>\n

I remember once someone reported that blind people were being taught to drive with the aid of a guide dog in the passenger seat, which was trained to bark once for “turn left” and twice for “turn right”.<\/p>\n

The number of people who believed it was amazing. It was published on April 1st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s quite frightening, but they are being serious. This article reports that blind people were put behind the wheel of manual cars on a test track in Cologne. For some inexplicable reason, it is deemed boastworthy that the fastest one of these blind drivers got the car “up to 74mph”. The article suggests: Teaching the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}