THE WHEEL TODAY EXCITEMENT WAS IN THE AIR FOR PEOPLE WHO SIGNED UP FOR THE BLIND DRIVER EXPERIENCE. PEOPLE LIKE SEAN CABELL, WHO SAID HE WAS READY TO GET BACK BEHIND THE WHEEL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 17 ...

WASHINGTON -- Could a blind person drive a car? Researchers are trying to make that far-fetched notion a reality. The National Federation of the Blind and Virginia Tech plan to demonstrate a prototype ...

In July 2025, this weekly traffic safety column alerted readers to an increasing safety problem caused by forward blind zones. An update from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) provides ...

One group at Virginia Tech is striving to make cars the new generation of mobility aids for the blind. The National Federation of the Blind proposed the blind driver project as a challenge to ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – The state agency that assists Bay Staters with blindness or vision impairment has for several years been failing to update the Registry of Motor Vehicles “on a regular and consistent ...

BLACKSBURG -- A student team in Virginia Tech's College of Engineering is testing a vehicle aimed at giving the blind an opportunity to drive. A retrofitted four-wheel dirt buggy developed by the ...

For most people, the promise of autonomous cars is evolutionary: If you drive already, having a car that can make turns and change lanes for you is just an added convenience and safety feature. For ...

Attaining a driver’s license for most teenagers is a must, but for some groups of people such as the blind, this adolescent rite of passage never comes. However, the Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory ...

PARIS (AP) — The driver's joints are so painful from rheumatoid arthritis that she can't manage a stick shift. And the co-pilot who is helping to guide her through France as the navigator is blind, ...

The driver told the officer she was on her way to work when she ran out of gas. As with all traffic stops, the officer ran the vehicle license tag through the computer and it came back as suspended.