we ve met sam schmidt before. he s a racing driver who was paralysed in an accident in 2000, and five years ago, he took us for a ride through las vegas in a car that allowed him to drive using just his head and his mouth. so, the steering system, it s an ir camera system and whichever way you turn your head steers the car he ll turn his head angle into a steering angle. the gas and brake, it s a sip and puff system, so we have a tube connected to a pressure sensor. positive pressure, blowing that s your accelerator pedal. negative pressure, sipping that s your brake pedal. the sam car is legal to drive in the us and sam has a driver s license. and since 2016, the system has been fine tuned so that it s now not only safe and responsive enough to drive at road speeds, but at race speeds. 123, 128. 128, wow! er.
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this is a look of part amazement and part terror. i m a passenger in a modified chevrolet corvette c8 stingray, but it s who is driving, and how he s driving that is blowing my mind. we ve met sam schmidt before. he s a racing driver who was paralysed in an accident in 2000, and five years ago, he took us for a ride through las vegas in a car that allowed him to drive using just his head and his mouth. so, the steering system, it s an ir camera system and whichever way you turn your head steers the car he ll turn his head angle into a steering angle. the gas and brake, it s a sip and puff system, so we have a tube connected to a pressure sensor. positive pressure, blowing that s your accelerator pedal. negative pressure, sipping that s your brake pedal. the sam car is legal to drive in the us and sam has a driver s license. and since 2016, the system has been fine tuned so that it s now not only safe and responsive enough to drive at road speeds, but at race speeds. 123, 128. 128
so we have a tube connected to a pressure sensor. positive pressure, blowing that s your accelerator pedal. negative pressure, sipping that s your brake pedal. the sam car is legal to drive in the us and sam has a driver s license. and since 2016, the system has been fine tuned so that it s now not only safe and responsive enough to drive at road speeds, but at race speeds. 123, 128. 128, wow! er. in fact, sam has taken this car up to 201mph. not today, though. anyway, the reality is that operating equipment without using arms or legs has many more applications than just on the race track. where i also see this technology being very beneficial is in the workplace.