The pandemic has led to huge changes in the way people live and work. The emergence of self-driving vehicles technology could also mean a similar shift in the way they travel by car or bus, experts at a University of Maine forum said last week.
The emergence of self-driving vehicles could get a boost from lessons learned during the pandemic, according to a panel discussion held by UMaine s Virtual Environments and Multimodal Interaction Laboratory, or VEMI Lab.
Digital technology has already allowed people to choose new homes and types of work during the pandemic, said Jonathan Rubin, director of Maine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. To the extent that autonomous vehicles save time a major cost to getting around it’s reasonable to think they ll have the same impact on those choices.
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LAWRENCE A research team based at the University of Kansas School of Engineering is one of 10 semifinalists in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Inclusive Design Challenge, which seeks to make self-driving cars accessible to people with disabilities. The team won a $300,00 prize and will spend 18 months refining highly automated driving systems designed for people with cognitive disabilities.
The technology could promise a new era of independence and mobility for people living with mild cognitive impairment and mild-to-moderate dementia. According to the researchers, about 16 million people in the U.S. living with cognitive disabilities can’t drive due to deficits in speed-of-processing, memory, attention, judgment and visuospatial skills.
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LAWRENCE A research team based at the University of Kansas School of Engineering is one of 10 semifinalists in the U.S. Department of Transportation s Inclusive Design Challenge, which seeks to make self-driving cars accessible to people with disabilities. The team won a $300,00 prize and will spend 18 months refining highly automated driving systems designed for people with cognitive disabilities.
The technology could promise a new era of independence and mobility for people living with mild cognitive impairment and mild-to-moderate dementia. According to the researchers, about 16 million people in the U.S. living with cognitive disabilities can t drive due to deficits in speed-of-processing, memory, attention, judgment and visuospatial skills.
Jan 7, 2021 Pittsburgh Research Team Wins 300-Thousand-Dollars For Autonomous Vehicle Innovation
(Pittsburgh, PA) A Pittsburgh-based research team is being awarded 300-thousand dollars for becoming a semifinalist in a national competition. Computer Interaction Institute in Pittsburgh was named yesterday as one of ten winning teams for the U.S. Department of Transportation s Inclusive Design Challenge. The research team won 300-thousand-dollars for their project that makes autonomous vehicles more accessible to people with disabilities. The team will have 18 months to build a prototype for their design, and they could win up to five-million-dollars if their design is selected as the winner of the competition.