I am disabled mentally. When I am in a dissociative state, I totally blank out from the world and run. It’s a symptom of a severe anxiety disorder. I have a service dog to help me with this. Essentially I’m blind when this dissociation sets in, but my dog guides me and interrupts the urge to hit the ground running. You would be surprised at the challenges we face. We live in a smaller city and crosswalks do not make the “chirping” noise as they do in bigger cities. My dog has been trained to heed these noises, but when they are non-existent the reality stems that she is just a dog and can only be trained so well!! Sure she looks for cars (or I assume as I’ve never been hit nor she), but when she can’t hear the car who’s to say that she will make one grave mistake that will kill me or her?

I like the rumble strips idea. But seriously people consider how hurtful words can be. You call the blind selfish? The same can be said of you by refusing to accommodate those who have a disability. It’s not like I choose to be disabled. It’s not like the blind choose to be so.

I am disabled mentally. When I am in a dissociative state, I totally blank out from the world and run. It’s a symptom of a severe anxiety disorder. I have a service dog to help me with this. Essentially I’m blind when this dissociation sets in, but my dog guides me and interrupts the urge to hit the ground running. You would be surprised at the challenges we face. We live in a smaller city and crosswalks do not make the “chirping” noise as they do in bigger cities. My dog has been trained to heed these noises, but when they are non-existent the reality stems that she is just a dog and can only be trained so well!! Sure she looks for cars (or I assume as I’ve never been hit nor she), but when she can’t hear the car who’s to say that she will make one grave mistake that will kill me or her?

I like the rumble strips idea. But seriously people consider how hurtful words can be. You call the blind selfish? The same can be said of you by refusing to accommodate those who have a disability. It’s not like I choose to be disabled. It’s not like the blind choose to be so.

this is ridiculous, this is really selfish, srsly >:I

rumble strips= thumbs up!

However blind people rely on sound. Right? Well since they do, I agree with the rumble strips thats a really good idea.

But people around us can invent some kind of hearing aid that is atached to blind people and hybrid cars. So then when a hybrid is at least 30-50ft away then the hearing aid will start beeping to alarm the blind person.

That way the blind person will be safe and unharmed.