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Autonomous vehicles will change the lives of those living with disabilities giving them a freedom and independence they do not currently have. FAR’s patent pending ultra wide-band (UWB) technology and FAVI system ensure these vehicles will be accessible for those with disabilities including blindness, cognitive disabilities, and those with age…

Submission It’s been extremely busy in April, May, and June putting the final touches on our Inclusive Design Challenge submission. In early May, we submitted our write-up and demo video.  A lot of work went into making sure we answered all the questions posed in the write-up guidelines, and we…

This is a very busy week at FAR.  A combination of creating our write-up for our Inclusive Design Challenge deadline of May 1st is well underway, and at the same time we are working on videos demonstrating the incredible technology we have created over the past year or so.  The…

Chris Webb, Foresight Augmented Reality’s CEO, and Tanner Gers, Director of Business Development, sat down with Josh Anderson, host of the Assistive Technology Update podcast to talk autonomous vehicles and the Inclusive Design Challenge. Chris and Tanner co-authored the original proposal to the Department of Transportation for the Inclusive Design…

FAR Flies North  to Autonomous Shuttles Event in Ann Arbor It’s cold outside, but February’s been hot for FAR! This post shares a couple highlights since returning from a 4-way collaboration autonomous vehicle event in Ann Arbor Michigan, led by FAR’s strategic partner !Important  and DOT Inclusive Design Challenge competitor…

Chris Webb, CEO and lead engineer, and Tanner Gers, Director of Business Development, joined host of the Speaking Out for the Blind podcast, Brian McCallen, to discuss the #InclusiveDesignChallenge, smart city accessibility, and how we’re ensuring autonomous vehicles are accessible and usable by people with disabilities. Listen to our episode…

The US Department of Transportation just released the presentations of each Inclusive Design Challenge semi-finalist On Monday January 24 and 26, each semi-finalist showcased the advancements made on their original proposed Inclusive Design Challenge prototype to ensure autonomous vehicles are accessible, usable, and enable people with disabilities to independently access…

FAR is neck deep in Phase II of the Inclusive Design Challenge! Next week, January 26 at 3PM Eastern, FAR will be presenting our phase II updates to the Department of Transportation and Inclusive Design Challenge team alongside other semi-finalists. FAR’s 10-minute presentation on Day 2 will be led by…

We were excited to be interviewed by Fred Blankenship of Atlanta’s ABC affiliate WSB TV News about our new technology being developed for the visually impaired in the DOT Inclusive Design Challenge.  We spoke about how our company came about through David’s experience getting hit by a vehicle, how our…

Congratulations!!!!! As mentioned previously, one of the takeaways from our focus groups with the visually impaired was the need for standardized, accessible pickup/drop-off points for Automated Vehicles. The DOT Inclusive Design Challenge semi-finalist position has allowed us to explore that by sponsoring a group of Industrial Design/Mechanical Engineering seniors at…