{"id":9034,"date":"2009-08-02T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-02T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T20:00:00","slug":"car-for-the-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/9034-car-for-the-blind.html","title":{"rendered":"Car for the blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty blind people took turns manoeuvring the retrofitted dune buggy on Friday in a parking lot at the University of Maryland. The test drive capped a National Federation for the Blind summer camp for 200 blind youth from across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Tech was the only university to take on a 2004 challenge from the federation to build a vehicle that could let blind people drive.<\/p>\n<p>The buggy they designed uses a laser sensor to figure out the road ahead. A special vibrating vest worn by drivers communicates speed and warns when to stop. And a headset relays voice commands signalling which way to turn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=185076\"><strong>Car for the blind<\/strong><\/a> discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several blind people were able to get behind the wheel of a new high-tech vehicle designed by Virginia Tech engineering students<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}