Blind Man Goes for a Cruise

This sounds crazy but Google let a blind man sit in the driver seat of a car to take a test drive. It may sound crazy, but the car was the company’s self-driving car. Steve Mahan is one lucky guy!

Mahan doesn’t have a driver’s license because he lost 95% of his vision. Like a true man, the first place Mahan wanted to go once he hopped in the driver seat was Taco Bell. Don’t worry, a Google representative rode along side with a computer on his lap, programming the route to each destination.

This car is the smartest car of all time. The steering wheel turns automatically, vehicle stops at red lights, vehicle stops at stop signs and all the other road laws/functions. The vehicle is equipped with radar and lasers that check for cross-traffic and prevent the vehicle from collisions.

This car has the possibility to change Mahan’s life:

Where this would change my life is to give me the independence and the flexibility to go the places I both want to go and need to go.

While Mahan sat in the Taco Bell parking lot eating his taco, the car was figuring out how to get to their next stop. This is truly a remarkable piece of technology that has the ability to explode into something huge for the future. Once question we must all have, is this safe?

According to Google, there has been over 200,000 miles of road testing with this self-driven car. Although they say it’s still undergoing tests, would you use a self-driving vehicle? Let us know in the comments.

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