Ford’s Feel The View System Lets Visually Impaired People Glimpse Outside Car’s Window
Ford’s Feel The View System Lets Visually Impaired People Glimpse Outside Car’s Window

Ford is aiming to make car rides a bit more interesting for blind people and those with very limited vision. A company’s team in Italy, working with Aedo, firm developing technology for people with visual impairments, and GTB, a marketing agency, have developed a system they call Feel The View.

When the user presses its single button, it takes a picture of the scenery outside and converts it into a high contrast image on the glass of the passenger window using built-in LEDs. One doesn’t have to necessarily see these, but touching the glass in different parts generates vibrations that correlate to how dark or bright that spot is. Running a hand across the scene gives an overall “picture” of what it’s like outside.

The following video helps to understand how the system is used through the experience of a few blind Italians living in picturesque mountainous areas. We wonder, though, if it would simply vibrate at a constant boring frequency when driving through the corn-rich plains of Nebraska.

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