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Originally Posted by SimmoW
I suppose its expected that such a visually oriented forum will show ignorance towards the blind and vision impaired perspective. It's an excellent regulation
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Oh come on. As some members know, I am vision impaired myself, with bad macular degeneration in my right eye. I will lose the remaining discrimination completely in a couple of years. I would be the last person to suggest vision impaired people should not be considered. It just seems to me that the knee jerk reaction is to regulate more aspects of our lives. There are other potential solutions.
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What if the pedestrian is deaf? What do you want to regulate for that scenario, perhaps a rotating beacon on top of every vehicle.
Yesterday there was a story about the real time tracking of every single vehicle, or phone, using Google location services, with the expected outcome being you would be alerted about a car turning ahead of you across your path before you arrive, or a pedestrian crossing the road, etc. My point being technology will rapidly make "noise makers" obsolete, like the guy holding a red flag walking in front of early vehicles.
And what about car drivers responsibility? Perhaps those low speed pedestrian impacts would drop considerably if car drivers were not looking at their phones, or Android Car screens at the time.