<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Thanks Kyle! Brian, thank you for facilitating in my absence.<div><br></div><div>I've had family in town for the past several days and work's been substantially busy as well. My apologies I didn't get this out to y'all sooner.</div><div><br></div><div>I spoke with Heather Aijian, who is in charge of the public affairs with Waymo, with support from Anil Lewis and John Pare at the national office in Baltimore back on January 31. I followed up with Heather last week and received this response earlier this afternoon:</div><div><br></div><div>Hi Kevin, </div><div><br></div><div>We are working hard to get a time on the books! My team is in Phoenix most of March so we will circle back with you at the beginning of Q2 once we've had</div><div>time to nail down a few more details. We've connected with our product team and they are excited to work with you on this. Apologies this isn't a faster</div><div>moving process, we are just a team of two and want to make sure we get all the appropriate parties involved. </div><div>Be in touch soon! </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Well, you heard it straight from the source. I anticipate this will pick up in the next couple of months. But myself and our national contacts stressed the potential this has to permanently change the way millions of people who can not drive, many of whom are blind or severely low vision, and improve mobility for these folks. Nonvisual accessibility was a forefront of that conversation, and any information which is communicated visually to the passenger should be communicated in a nonvisual manner. Heather didn't know what the tests/demonstrations would look like. I will keep you all apprised as I get more information.</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 12:53 PM Kyle Garcia <<a href="mailto:kgarcia2432@gmail.com" target="_blank">kgarcia2432@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>Attached are the minutes from the February 16th meeting. The next meeting will be on March 16th also at the MLK Library at 3:00pm. Hopefully we will have the same room, 392, but that won't be known for sure until Tuesday March 12th. I will update the chapter information phone line shortly. As a reminder that number is 669-223-0865, and messages left there are monitored by both me and Kevin.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Kyle Garcia</div><div>Treasurer, San Jose Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind of California</div></div>
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