{"id":83,"date":"2014-05-18T11:20:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T15:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/?p=83"},"modified":"2014-05-18T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T15:22:19","slug":"sam-schmidt-drives-car-at-indy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/2014\/05\/18\/sam-schmidt-drives-car-at-indy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Schmidt drives SAM car at IMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2014\/05\/samschmidt.jpg\" alt=\"samschmidt\" width=\"563\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2014\/05\/samschmidt.jpg 563w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/files\/2014\/05\/samschmidt-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><br \/>\nSam Schmidt got behind the wheel of a black Corvette on Sunday morning to take laps around the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt, who is a quadriplegic as the result of a testing accident in 2000, drove the car around the track prior to the start of Pole Day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>So cool to watch Sam Schmidt drive around <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IMS\">@IMS<\/a>&#8230; With a qualifying time of 73.713 mph! <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/mn7VrMlfJs\">pic.twitter.com\/mn7VrMlfJs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Katie Hargitt (@katiehargitt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katiehargitt\/statuses\/468028172328374273\">May 18, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hands and feet are not required to drive the SAM car (Semi-Autonomous Motorcar) rather sensors in a hat transmit information to the dashboard. Head tilting is used for acceleration while biting slows it down. (Below is a video further describing it)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XvDq-EYCi7Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this will have huge benefits for people with disabilities down the road,\u201d said Schmidt via IMS&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indy500.com\/indy500\/news\/show\/52648-schmidt-drives-at-indianapolis-once-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">official website<\/a>. \u201cThis is a full-circle moment today. A lot of the emotions stem from being at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It got to qualify for the race three times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Indianapolis Motor Speedway was constructed originally as a place to drive automotive innovation, and the multitude of innovations that have been discovered here over 102 years means a lot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing that was so emotional and enlightening was the great sense of accomplishment that comes from doing something that feels normal. I do a lot of the things I did before, but I do it all with assistance. I\u2019m not in control of the situation. But in this car I feel the most normal I\u2019ve felt in 14 years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Schmidt got behind the wheel of a black Corvette on Sunday morning to take laps around the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Schmidt, who is a quadriplegic as the result of a testing accident in 2000, drove the car around the track prior to the start of Pole Day. So cool to watch Sam Schmidt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,13],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-83","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indycar","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-sam-schmidt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}