experimental cars https://www.coolthings.com Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:40:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/cropped-coolthings-favicon-512-32x32.png experimental cars https://www.coolthings.com 32 32 A Car For The Blind…What?!? https://www.coolthings.com/car-for-the-blind/ Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:40:31 +0000 http://www.coolthings.com/?p=13993 Sometimes, an idea sounds so ridiculous it just might be worth the try – and a car for the blind certainly ranks high on the strange-o-meter.  A team of twelve scientists at Virginia Tech are working with the National Federation for the Blind to produce one, aiming to build a working prototype to unveil early next year. The first version of the car is a modified beach buggy first shown last year, armed with laser range sensors to detect objects […]

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