hi dale what we need is the robotic guide dog. it would have legs and paws not wheels to walk over anything and do stairs. also the body would be large enough to hold computers and the gps stuff. it would be able to recognize doors and sidewalks to make up for the little bit the gps is off. using terrain recignision software. it could have bluetooth to get directions and to talk back to you. also it could have a higher power cell phone in it so it wouldn't loose contact as it wouldn't have to be nere your head, something like the bag phones used to be about 3 wats or so.
of course it would cost about 3 million dollars grin. i'll take a blue grate dane please. jim in minnesota At 04:23 PM 11/15/2007, you wrote: >My point was that one reason I don't prefer using a taxi is that I >can never be certain exactly where they drop me off. I can of course >enlist the assistance of the driver because the taxi has a driver. I >suppose the car could tell me that it is parked behind two other >vehicles which have arrived before and so the door is about 40 feet >forward and off the sidewalk by another ten feet. > >Now a guide bot! That would be something. A device with optical >recognition capable of reading signs, notices, bus labels along with >all those other guidance mechanisms. Something strong enough to >carry a box of beer or two, now that would be useful. > >Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada ><mailto:DLeavens%40puc.net>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Skype DaleLeavens >Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Dan Rossi >To: <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected] >Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:54 PM >Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] DARPA Urban Grand Challenge > > > Just wait until your new automated automobile parks you in the far > > corner of the mal parking lot or you have to try finding your way from > > the secured parking area on the 24th level of the airport parking garage > > to the departures lounge in the third airport terminal. > > >You are not thinking robotic enough. Why should the car park in the lot >while you fly off to wherever? The car drops you off at the main door, >then either drives home, or drives itself to the lot. You then just make >a phone call, punch in a code, and the car comes and picks you up. > >-- >Blue skies. >Dan Rossi >Carnegie Mellon University. >E-Mail: <mailto:dr25%40andrew.cmu.edu>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Tel: (412) 268-9081 > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.33/1133 - Release Date: >11/15/2007 8:57 PM
