[nagdu] Guide dogs vs smartphone
Darla Rogers
djrogers0628 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 00:27:43 UTC 2014
Good points, Sherrie and Tracy; it might help as another tool, but I won't
trade something like that for my guide dog.
Darla Who wants to live awhile longer
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From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sherry Gomes
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 1:39 PM
To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Guide dogs vs smartphone
not to mention, I can't imagine a smart phone app or case doing intelligent
disobedience or pulling you out of the way of an oncoming car int he street.
-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jewel
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 12:27 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Guide dogs vs smartphone
Besides, who would want to waive their phone in front of their body? One,
it's annoying. Two, it went attract burglars.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 18, 2014, at 1:19 PM, "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net> wrote:
>
> Today, one of my coworkers was telling me about an article she read
> about a smartphone app that could replace a guide dog. I tried to
> explain to her how that was unlikely, because my dog can look at a
> whole situation and assess what he thinks our best option is to deal
> with it, and do it quickly. No smartphone app can do that. I'm not
> sure she got what I was saying, though.
> I looked up the article she was referring to, and it's talking about a
> new case for a Galaxy phone that sends out sonar pings and vibrates
> when it detects an obstacle up to 6 feet away. Six feet! My dog can
> detect an obstacle at least half a block away, and adjust so that I
> may not even know he's going around something.
> So, more silly hype about some machine replacing guide dogs, which I
> don't see happening any time soon. I guess these story writers
> basically have no idea what a guide dog really does.
> Tracy
>
>
>
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