New Film Series Turns the Spotlight on Arrow Electronics' SAM Car Project
ACCESSWIRE•26/10/2026•09:45 ET
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Key Highlights
- ➤Arrow’s SAM Car Project enables paralyzed driver Sam Schmidt to race using assistive controls
- ➤New AI steering system uses NVIDIA Jetson Orin to process head movements in real time
- ➤Schmidt has completed dozens of high-speed demonstrations at major racing events
- ➤Arrow says SAM technology could apply to wheelchairs, tractors, trucking and autonomous machines
- ➤Arrow reported 2025 sales of $31 billion
Expert Statements
Sam Schmidt, Former IndyCar driver
“I crashed, backed into the wall and just disintegrated my C3, C4, and C5 vertebrae”
Sam Schmidt, Former IndyCar driver
“I was paralyzed from the neck down. You know, that was that.”
Stephen Harper, Principal Field Applications Engineer at Arrow Electronics
“This guy is not afraid of anything”
Stephen Harper, Principal Field Applications Engineer at Arrow Electronics
“Like, you get in the car and he's six inches from the wall at 200 miles an hour.”
Sam Schmidt, Former IndyCar driver
“I'm controlling the brakes, I'm controlling the gas, and it's all on me, and it's completely changed my life. It's amazing”
Stephen Harper, Principal Field Applications Engineer at Arrow Electronics
“If we can do this in a race car, we can do this in just about anything - wheelchairs, autonomous machines, tractors and farming, trucking”
CENTENNIAL, CO / ACCESS Newswire / October 26, 2026 / When former IndyCar driver Sam Schmidt was left paralyzed after a crash in 2000, he assumed his racing career was over.
"I crashed, backed into the wall and just disintegrated my C3, C4, and C5 vertebrae," said Schmidt. "I was paralyzed from the neck down. You know, that was that."
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