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  ### English: So about that time, the National Federation of the Blind, or NFB, challenged the research committee about who can develop a car that lets a blind person drive safely and independently.
  ### English rewrite: The National Federation of the Blind, or NFB, had issued a challenge to the automobile industry to develop a car that blind people could drive safely and independently.