Techstination

Autonomous tech can mean mobility for all


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 Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.   What should the future of self driving transportation look like?  Mobility for all was a key theme at Princeton University’s 3rd annual Smart Driving Car Summit.  Whether you are talking about blindness, autism, the elderly  or any other type of situation that impairs freedom of mobility,  autonomous transportation has the potential to open doors and the summit gave organizations and individuals a chance to experience it first hand.  Local Motors demonstrated the self driving Olli shuttle for instance.  Anil Lewis is Executive Director of Blindness Initiatives at the National Federation of the Blind…

“We want to be able to access transportation just as dynamically as someone that is sighted.  And the technology is evolving to a place where that is going to be possible in the very near future.”

Stay tuned.  There’s much more to come.

You can find us at Techstination.com.  I’m Fred Fishkin.

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