This incredible Corvette allows a quadriplegic driver to race again | Festival of Speed
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- IndyCar driver Sam Schmidt was paralysed in an accident in 2000 and has been a quadraplegic ever since. Now a multiple IndyCar racing-winning team-owner Schmidt has worked with Arrow to develop a car that allows him to compete again.
The car is steered using Sam's head movements and he accellerates and brakes by blowing into and sucking air from a tube. He brought this specially converted C8 Chevrolet Corvette to the Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard in 2021 and we found out exactly how it works.
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Sam is an inspiration to many people. His contributions to the development of that Corvette and added safety in Indy cars is immeasurable.
Sam and the Arrow team 👏
This is truly incredible what technology can do now, truly amazing
Words cannot express just how awesome this is way to go guys way to go
As a Chevy guy, this is truly incredible.
What does this have to do with being a Chevy guy..?
@@druidofthefang Innovation.
@@gseric4721 what?
@@gseric4721 In case you didn't understand by watching the video, the technology was developed and engineered by Arrow. The car could have been a Nissan, Lada, Ferrari, an electric scooter, a lawn mower, whatever. The vehicle makes no difference and has nothing to do with the technology.
@@druidofthefang Yep, but they chose the Corvette C8, the first mass-produced, mid-engine Corvette ever built. Really don't see the reason for your comment, at all.
Sam Schmidt 🙌❤
That's a very cool adaptation to allow someone to drive a sportscar (or other applications that may emerge). I do have to somewhat take issue with the description 'mind control' though - that's not really what this is, is it?!
The car is still being controlled by physical inputs.
I agree with you on this. It does make it sound like it's in some way wired into his neural system and it's not neural electrical signals that steer the car. The eye/head movement and breath control is what it's there.
But besides that, yeah, great technology and amazing potential. It also allowed me to see this car as of kinda "extension" of his own body, a wheeled exoskeleton. AND I'm in love with the Arrow logo. It just looks like a graphical waveform, beautiful.
To be fair, Sam can only use his head to control the car, so it is related to mind control.
@@FAT8893 Only in the same way controlling a car with your arms and legs is mind control. (I am assuming you’re not claiming you don’t see the obvious difference between ‘mind’ and ‘head’).
This great humanitarian technology/application which isn’t used to wage lethal war on mankind; go figure!
As a scientist and a human being this application made my heart ❤️ sigh and my brain wonder what other applications we could adapt it to further the mobility potential for other disabled persons!
I want to be involved!
Paraplegia is when the lower body is paralysed. Please correct the title. The girl even says "quadriplegic" in the video.
Calm down
@@TweakyGoblin so you are going to neglect the disabilty
Even was mentioned in the video, yet Goodwood Road & Racing wasn't coherent.
Labeled wrong or not I knew after reading the person was a quadriplegic. Paraplegic people can drive which is normal to see. Not quadriplegic though. Guess it was just my common sense kicking in
@@SeanCampbell_iRacing
Intent is important. Your intent is to virtue signal. The video makers intent is to show an amazing technology helping people live their dreams.
Using the wrong word on ACCIDENT isn't neglect you snowflake. Grow up. You act like they referred to her as "a crippled" or something SLIGHTLY more offensive.
Wow. Amazing tech
That's performance
Imagine sneezing or if something crazy happens next to him. He's screwed
I laughed. See you in hells. (props to the guy and the engineers)
Incredible what technology is capable of
This is ridiculously amazing! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Great job to everyone involved in creating this engineering marvel. It's so inspiring to see what brilliant humans are capable of nowadays 🙏
That is utterly incredible.
Super máquinas 😍
Big props to Chevy engineers for making this possible 💪👍
This has nothing to do with Chevy engineers
The technology was developed and engineered by Arrow.
The car could have been a Lada, Saab, or a Nissan. Or a electric scooter. Or a Briggs & Stratton lawn mower.
@@druidofthefang or a liebherr r9800
I'm also a quad and would love to get In contact with someone about this setup.
Brings a whole new meaning to keeping your eyes on the road.
When you are handicapped there are just some things that just because you can due to technology doesn’t mean you should. Self driving/AI vehicles would be better served for handicapped people.
We are still far away from a truly viable self-driving or autonomous technology.
if it's controlled by head then I really wonder about how they solved the safety problem rising out of head inertia
I believe the initial head inertia is compensated for by the camera/sensor sensitivity; than as you know the racing seat head supports minimize the head movement side to side and forward and backwards-car control is via rotation of the head following the eyes as the driver views the direction he wants to go, similar but simpler system to the eye aiming weapons technology used in our military aircraft. Just speaking as a lay person, I might be overreaching in my assessment.
Too amazing for words!
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Simply amazing!
Wow
Racer until death 💪
eyooo this is the future thing danggg
Amazing!
3 DAYS !!!! S2 S2 S2
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Lol it's basically how a wiimote work, it's like 30 yo tech...Also how do you look around without crashing if it work that way? It's cool but totally impractical if it's not done on a closed road.
I bet you didn't know that Sam managed to complete a lap of Pikes Peak Hill Climb with his C7 Z06 Corvette back in 2016.
👏👏👏🔝🔝🔝🏆
And where is the proof that it actually works? This could well have been just the regular driver for each run we saw!
you got it in front, if you see the video, it0s not the driver who is driving, he is only checking the steering just in case, but he doesnt grab it anytime... if you don't pay atention man don't trew rocks to a great proyect like this
Want more proof of it? Watch Sam's 2016 Pikes Peak Hill Climb run in his C7 Z06 Corvette.