[nagdu] Undoing traffic training
Tracy Carcione
carcione at access.net
Thu Aug 6 13:12:40 UTC 2015
I remember this lecture pretty well. It made a big impression on me. Lukas
also discussed undoing traffic training at a NAGDU meeting at convention
some time back.
Ways to undo traffic training:
Cue the dog to go by pushing with the harness, moving as you say forward, or
some such. You may not even realize you're doing it.
Tell the dog to go when you hear a car coming, because you know you have the
light and you assume the car will stop.
This is something I always worry about. There's only so much time to get
across, and, if I wait for the guy cruising up to the light to stop, I'll
have to wait another cycle, and hope some other guy doesn't do the same
thing. On the other hand, I don't really know for sure the idiot won't run
the light, and I don't want to teach my dog it's fine to walk in front of a
moving car.
It also makes my husband crazy. We have the light, or the stop sign, but I
don't go because I hear someone coming, and he gets all impatient. He knows
the reasons, but he still grumbles and grits his teeth.
There may be other ways to undo traffic training, but these are the ones I
remember.
Tracy
-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Buddy Brannan via
nagdu
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 7:26 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Cc: Buddy Brannan
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Walking in new territory
Hi,
I may need to review the lecture, but basically, things like overriding your
dog's reactions by, for example, pushing forward on the harness handle.
Admittedly, it's been a while since I've listened to the traffic lecture.
--
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: 814-860-3194
Mobile: 814-431-0962
Email: buddy at brannan.name
> On Aug 5, 2015, at 6:25 PM, Star Gazer via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Very interesting Buddy.
> When I got my dogs, both from Leader what I remember is that the dogs were
a
> fail safe that they'd catch it if the human, either the handler or the
> driver made an error. That never made sense to me.
> How did Seeing Eye say traffic training could be undone? Write me off list
> if you'd like.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Buddy Brannan
via
> nagdu
> Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 4:35 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Buddy Brannan <buddy at brannan.name>
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Walking in new territory
>
> I really don't know why they don't mention it. Is it because they haven't
> done the research? Is it because "it's just not that important"? No idea.
No
> one else has told me that their school mentioned anything of the kind, and
I
> know when I got Karl from GDB in 1996, they never mentioned it. About all
we
> got on traffic was "Oh, your dog will watch for traffic and check you if
> there is any, either by stopping, slowing, or backing up". OK, that's
great.
> Then we had a day devoted to set up traffic checks. At Seeing Eye, traffic
> was integral to the whole experience, and we had set up checks starting on
> the second day of training and continuing throughout. Along with a very
> thorough traffic seminar, including the above mentioned traffic judging
> limitations and stresses on how traffic training can easily be undone and
so
> on.
>
> --
> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
> Phone: 814-860-3194
> Mobile: 814-431-0962
> Email: buddy at brannan.name
>
>
>
>
>> On Aug 4, 2015, at 4:29 PM, Star Gazer via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
wrote:
>>
>> Exactly Buddy. I've used the physics
>> argument many times and people just look blank like they expect that it
> will
>> somehow be different because they want it to be.
>> Why don't other schools mention the 30 miles per hour and dogs reliably
>> judging traffic?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Buddy Brannan
> via
>> nagdu
>> Sent: Sunday, August 2, 2015 10:17 PM
>> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Cc: Buddy Brannan <buddy at brannan.name>
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Walking in new territory
>>
>> Bloody hell! There are some times where it's just not safe to walk with
>> cane, dog, or working eyeballs, and I think your whole route, both ways,
>> sounds like just such a time. Suck it up and call a cab.
>>
>> Remember, too, that our dogs can't reliably judge traffic over about 30
> MPH.
>> As far as I know, none of the schools, apart from the Seeing Eye, which
> has
>> the most comprehensive traffic training out, and by extension, the most
>> comprehensive traffic lectures out, will tell you this. To put this into
>> perspective, at 30 miles an hour, a car takes maybe two seconds to travel
>> 200 feet. Something like that, I'd have to review said traffic lecture.
>> Point is, a pretty damned far piece, for a pedestrian, in a really really
>> short amount of time. You canna' change the laws of physics, laws of
>> physics, Jim! Speaking of which, physics always wins. You, the
pedestrian,
>> will always lose, in a contest with a truck.
>>
>> --
>> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
>> Phone: 814-860-3194
>> Mobile: 814-431-0962
>> Email: buddy at brannan.name
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Aug 2, 2015, at 10:01 PM, Lori Dent via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Rick and I were talking about Gipp and me walking from my grandmother's
>> house to Wal Mart. When I leave my grandmother's house in her allotment
> it's
>> about a four block walk with no sidewalks to get to the closest main
>> street, route 43. When I come out to route 43 there's no safe way to
> cross
>> the street. Traffic from my left is just coming over a hill. I would
have
>> to turn right and walk , with traffic, for about a half mile to get to
the
>> first major intersection which is route 18. In fact that's the first
>> street.
>>>
>>> Once I come up to route 18 and route 43 it's a light controlled
>> intersection. I would need to turn left to cross over route 43. Once Gipp
>> and I cross over route 43 we will be walking down route 18 against
> traffic
>> without any sidewalks for about a mile and a half, maybe 2 miles.
>>>
>>> About a quarter mile before I get to Wal Mart it starts to get
>> interesting. I first have to cross an exit from interstate 76. luckily
> it's
>> light controlled. A little further on we have an entrance to interstate
76
> .
>> Again light controlled. The last little bit I have to cross is a
business
>> area that has a bunch of small shops and three or four graveled
entrances.
>> Then I come up to the entrance to the Wall Mart lot. Then I turn left.
> Not
>> one sidewalk the entire time.
>>>
>>> Walking back to my grandmother's house from Wal Mart I will have to
> walk
>> with traffic on route 18. Rick explained to me why it would be extremely
>> unsafe to cross route 18 and walk against traffic. First it would be
>> crossing route 18 in front of Wal Mart. Even though there's a light there
>> are no markings to cross. But that's not the hard part. About a quarter
>> mile up I would have to cross an exit from interstate 76 and Mogadore
> Road.
>> Traffic coming off of Mogadore Road and I-76 will enter route 18 at about
> a
>> 45 degree angle. Traffic moves very fast there, there's no markings to
>> cross and no light. It's extremely unsafe and Rick said he wouldn't try
to
>> cross it and he's sighted.
>>>
>>> Rick says there might be a way to cross. This is going to be hard to
>> explain so bare with me. I could stay on the exit from I-76 facing
> traffic,
>> for about 200 feet. There is a traffic light at that point. It would be
> very
>> difficult to work with traffic . Whether or not traffic from I-76 has a
> red
>> light traffic from Mogadore Road is making continuous right hand turns.
> The
>> drivers are watching the I-76 traffic to see if they can beat somebody
> out.
>> They never look to the right.
>>>
>>> Providing I can cross at this light I would walk about 50 feet, with
>> traffic, so that I can cross at the next light. Traffic coming through
> this
>> light is either coming straight from Mogadore Road or making a left turn
>> from I-76. Turning traffic could be coming down the ramp at least 40
miles
>> per hour and would not be able to see me until they made the turn with
no
>> time to stop.
>>>
>>> Because of this one area Rick thinks it would be safer to walk home with
>> traffic.
>>>
>>> I've talked to Rick about maybe having a trainer come out and look at
> this
>> area to see what he or she thinks. do you think I should ask for a
> trainer
>> to come out or go by what Rick suggested?
>>>
>>> Lori and the Gipper
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