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It was interesting how in the photo of him using the sonic scope, he had one eye open and the other closed, in the manner a sighted person would use a scope. I
by rdl 12y ago
It was interesting how in the photo of him using the sonic scope, he had one eye open and the other closed, in the manner a sighted person would use a scope.
I'm really intrigued by the tech for this whole area - clearly these guys are absurd 0.001% outliers, but I wonder if you could make a (lethal or non-lethal) self defense device for reduced-vision or blind people which used image recognition. It's going to happen at physical-contact distances, but having some combination of camera, pepper spray or firearm, and safety interlock (like a nailgun, where you press it against the material to allow it to fire)?
Ideally something which requires even less physical strength, vision, or other ability than a firearm (handguns are actually hard to use in self defense for a variety of situations). An impaired mobility, impaired vision person totally deserves some kind of protection, and probably needs it more than someone who can see trouble coming from a distance, or run away.
- noelwelsh 12y ago"An impaired mobility, impaired vision person totally deserves some kind of protection" It's the job of the police specifically and of government generally to create a safe society. If one's community is seriously so unsafe that carrying firearms is justified from the point-of-view of personal protection there are better ways to fix it than arming blind people.
- mgarfias 12y agoPolice in America have zero responsibility to protect an individual. They enforce laws. Also, even if they did, check on response times for a 911 call. My wife is a dispatcher with the sheriffs dept here - 20-30 mins is normal where we are at. Tell us again how the cops can protect us?
- claudius 12y agoFix your police, then.
- bashinator 12y agoCan you recommend a fix which will reduce the average response time of police to under say 5 minutes in a geographically huge, mostly unpopulated rural area?
- claudius 12y agoDon’t live in a geographically huge, mostly unpopulated rural area but instead in sufficiently large villages/small towns, each with their own local police. Especially don’t live in a geographically huge, mostly unpopulated rural area if you are blind. Self-defence is likely to be one of the smaller issues in this case.