Testing The Autonomous Wheelchair - BBC Click

Click travelled to JFK Airport in New York to test out an autonomous wheelchair.
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[@n3xu59988]

Nice to see new tech helping make things more efficient for the physically handicapped

[@PresidentialWinner]

You should add to this chair a built in headphone system and microphone so you can talk with an AI or a human operator who helps you out by asking questions like where would you like to go and maybe he can ask you your name and tell the chair where to go. Like Jarvis in Iron Man, or just an Indian warehouse full of people, helping you out.

[@paulgray1318]

Great initiative, only concern is that such wheelchairs are used as advertising billboards as some `sponsorship`, then evasive marketing - dragging the passenger to duty free sales items etc.
But all buildings should have the designer forced to sit in a wheelchair and then design the building - aspect that would make a difference shows how much we need to think more of others.

[@OutdoorFreedomDk]

And now with sound !!! 🎼

[@PresidentialWinner]

I want one and i'm not even handicapped.

[@timf9740]

Why cant they use user-controlled motorised wheelchairs?

[@EyesOfByes]

If it weren't for the privacy issues, I would let Google Assistant help me with pretty much everything. ADHD makes life a total chaos

[@jamesmoon4269]

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