For the visually impaired

I see a lot of elderly people who are hearing impaired or visually impaired.

I always run it perfectly fine.

I believe most of these accidents can be avoided by making cars safer.

Well, yeah, a lot of them.

But as I was traveling here, you'll be very happy to know,

So what we've been doing in my lab is looking at these unique sensory specialists, the bats, and we have looked at genes that cause blindness when there's a defect in them, genes that cause deafness when there's a defect in them, and now we can predict which sites are most likely to cause disease.

For this, we're showing a simulator, a blind person driving using the AirPix.

It's a progressive loss of visual function.

We just we go like that, and we imagine that that's what deafness is about.

We won a half a million dollars in the DARPA Urban Challenge.

Beau Lotto He finds it. Amazing, right?

So about that time, the National Federation of the Blind, or NFB, challenged the research committee about who can develop a car that lets a blind person drive safely and independently.

We have already an autonomous vehicle.

let me tell you this

But all that belief had fueled me so long.

Of course, the main goal of this project is to develop a car for the blind.

Do you see what I mean?

About 10 percent of the hearing impaired people get musical hallucinations.

What NFB wanted was not a vehicle that can drive a blind person around, but a vehicle where a blind person can make active decisions and drive.

For criminally insane.

A good example for this informational non visual user interface is called AirPix.

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I accompanied my little sister in complete innocence, as I always had all my life my visually impaired sister to go to see an eye specialist.

His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against the blind.

And by turning things off, it's more or less a zero.

I have some damage to my vision.

The Paralympics, just for a little bit of clarification, are the Olympics for people with physical disabilities amputees, persons with cerebral palsy, and wheelchair athletes as opposed to the Special Olympics, which deals with people with mental disabilities.

A Fred Johnson?

And that wind in my face made me believe that he was mad and I would drive.

Many believe driving is an activity solely reserved for those who can see.

We also have the world's very first vehicle that can be driven by the blind.

We're looking at blindness. Now why would you do this?

or cortical visual impairment.

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For the criminally insane.

Alfred Mann is a brilliant physicist and innovator who's fascinated with bridging gaps in consciousness, whether to restore hearing to the deaf, vision to the blind or movement to the paralyzed.

And together with this new type of interfaces, we can use these technologies and apply them to safer cars for sighted people.

And this is ... a division of the Library of Congress produces a free national library service for the blind and visually impaired, and the publications they choose to publish are based on reader popularity.

I wouldn't call it hate mail but letters of really strong concern

ROMEO I can tell you but young Romeo will be older when you have found him than he was when you sought him

We're going to do this in people that have cognitive deficits, and we've chosen to treat patients with Alzheimer's disease who have cognitive and memory deficits.

for which you can play exactly what you imagine, without it being cosmetically enhanced.

It works.

Normally these are all part of the integrated stream of perception, or imagination, and one is not conscious of them.