[Electronics-Talk] Warning about using Aira!

[Andy Baracco]

Hi Jenny,

again, i agree with the sentiment expressed in your message.

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 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Warning about using Aira!


> I’m not as familiar with aira as you are probably.
>
> But I would hope that they would have some sort of agreement that they are 
> not responsible for Mobility. I think they do say that they are not in 
> place of a cane.
>
> It would really stink if they got sued. But I think the litigiousness of 
> this country makes it very possible.
>
> All people have to take responsibility for what they do in the choices 
> they make. Everybody trust people that they shouldn’t or that have good 
> intentions. Whether it be sided or blind.
>
> But I guess that’s the stuff that aira has to deal with. Since it is 
> relatively still new.
>
> I sure think God every day for it though.
>
> Jenny
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jan 4, 2020, at 9:55 PM, Andy Baracco via Electronics-Talk 
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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" 
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> 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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