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Friday, March 29, 2019

Avoid red nosed engineering

OH RUDOLf—WHERE  ARE YOU NOW?

Well I won’t go into the inspiration porn aspects of the  holiday classic.  it  was developed to make a point even with the  Island of Misfit  Toys where the magnificent  Santa  swooped in to save the day guided by  that glowing nose  that was  until it became annoying  was seen as a definite flaw.  

However keeping this brief—I am wondering if  the makers of  Autonomous  Vehicles (Self Driving and otherwise ) have decided that people with disabilities  are pretty much a  subset of the population  to be shunned instead of  included in the thought process?   Because  you see if Santa  would have  been thinking of the assets known as “Rudolf’s glowing nose”….he might have had all the elves and  other  Reindeer  out searching for  this sort of talent long before  the emergency Christmas Eve.  

When are  builders of new technology going to stop getting away with the Rudolf rescue or retrofits that have become so much of the common trend in technology.  When are builders and engineers going to realize that body and cognitive -diverse humans  can and should be playing a part in the advancement of their  industries  and products.  Raise your hand any company who wouldn’t  have liked  to haSteven Hocking  as part of their team?   Or maybe  you  would have liked to pass on Edison too?  

Oh well…. I was jut  thinking about  a time when an industry  needed  solutions to a number of  remaining issues you know like  all the AI and self-driving sectors?


Well I said  I’d  keep this brief so  just think a bit and  I HO HO Hope you get the point

Peace,

 and maybe  you’ll go down in history!

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