[Electronics-Talk] Warning about using Aira!

[Andy Baracco]

I agree wholeheartedly.
i fear that some blind person who gets hit crossing a street will sue aIra.

Andy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jenny Perdue via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: "Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances" 
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Cc: "Jenny Perdue" <jlperdue3 at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2020 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Warning about using Aira!


> Aira is not a substitute for your own mobility skills. It was never meant 
> to be that.
>
> If you have issues crossing the street, anyone, including me. It is not 
> Iris responsibility to make sure your mobility skills are right. If you’re 
> not coming trouble crossing the street, don’t. Aira or not.
>
> Jenny
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Dec 21, 2019, at 10:45 PM, David Andrews via Electronics-Talk 
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Personally I don't think you should be using Aira this way.  Initially 
>> they wouldn't do that kind of thing, I guess they have changed -- and I 
>> think it is dangerous. They have no control over where you are looking,so 
>> it would be easy to miss something, nor not be able to see it.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> At 06:25 AM 12/21/2019, you wrote:
>>> Warning about using Aira & street crossing!
>>>
>>> I have been using Aira for over 1 year now. Sometimes an Aira agent can 
>>> see
>>> the walk signal & sometimes not. When they cannot the agent tells me & 
>>> then
>>> I point the camera at the traffic signal & not the walk signal. This was
>>> working!
>>>
>>> Not this time. The Aira agent said I had the walk signal. I heard no 
>>> moving
>>> traffic. So, I put 1 foot out in the street & wiz a car went across my 
>>> path
>>> 2 lanes away. I pulled my foot back & to more cars went right where my 
>>> foot
>>> was!
>>>
>>> Obviously that Aira agent could not see the walk signal. Bad information 
>>> is
>>> worse than no information.
>>>
>>> Yes, I did report that to Aira. Because I could have died, I just wanted 
>>> you
>>> to know for your safety. Sometimes I cannot tell if I have the walk 
>>> signal
>>> because of noises or a lack of traffic flow.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mike
>>
>>
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