Innovations that help with safety, whether you live with a disability or not, don’t necessarily have to cost as much as we may expect. Reading this article was an interesting peek into the function and safety designs that allow Japan’s train to run the way they do!
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QR codes cut costs of subway safety doors | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
Railways across Japan are installing doors on platform edges to keep their passengers safe, but costs are getting in the way. Now, officials with the Tokyo government have found a way to make things radically cheaper.
Josh Grisdale2 Comments-
That is really cool. Not only people with visual impairments, but for myself as well feel much safer. It would take just one person looking at their smartphone bumping into my joystick to push me on the tracks…
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For me it was a similar worry that makes me like the safety walls. I think is was my 2nd motorized wheelchair (many years ago now), at one point in its late life it randomly short-circuited and drove itself around very spasmodically, only powering off after multiple attempts of flicking the power switch on and off, then working as if nothing happened. At first I figured it may of been a weird isolated incident, but after it happened again I was worried it could happen on a bus lift (I was still in school at the time). A little later I got a new motorized chair, and luckily it seems since then I haven’t seen any wheelchairs doing such a thing (hopefully because advances in tech). Nevertheless, it was because of that instance I avoid getting too close to a ledge if I can help it, so yeah for safety walls -one less worry!
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