What’s the big news about this? You run across a lot of drivers like this if you drive on southern California freeways:MAFIKENG, South
Africa (Reuters) – A South African became the world’s fastest blind driver Thursday after driving across a remote airstrip at 269 kph (167 mph).
Blind since birth, 33-year-old Hein Wagner of Cape Town had a sighted navigator for his record attempt. After crossing the airfield, he told reporters he wanted to do it again but was considering piloting an aircraft for his next record attempt.
The big difference is the ones on the highways in California don’t have any assistants.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.