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Autonomous Vehicles Don’t Understand How Blind People Move

University of Maryland Today

At the Paralympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, one of the autonomous Toyota vehicles designed to ferry people around the two-week event collided with a blind athlete at an intersection in the Olympic Village, causing minor injuries. How did the vehicle fail in its No. 1 job of not running people down?

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