How Blind People Cross The Street Alone

[Charmax1234]

Omg. U are so brave if I was blind I would never be able to do that and have people yelling at me. You are truely amazing. Do you Everest feel embarassed or do you just go with it. Please respond

[mrhamsterlovers]

I have a blind friend not to rude because i said blind

[lourie966]

I'm 13 years old. I've seen a blind man and an woman purposely drove right in front of him fast (a curb). Oh my gosh.. If he walked a little faster an accident could've happened. How I wish I could've cursed her out, haha.

[quique7017]

love you buddy

[vivekkind007]

In India we donot have beeper's sir but then also blind people manage to cross ,why people in foreign countries especially the physically challenged donot get help from the public why .

[goodseem]

is he really blind

[TommyEdisonXP]

@goodseem Yes. I've been blind since birth.

[shadowblood100]

@TommyEdisonXP How do u type??!???!!

[DogsneedpIeasuretoo]

@TommyEdisonXP

Can you ask him, how does he know when to stop wiping?

People with eye sigh can look at the toilet paper to make sure is clean after wiping, but how does blind people know they are really clean?

Do they smell? do they touch? Do they get a bath after it? Do they ask for help? Do they wipe 20+ times?

Big help if you can ask hi that question.

[mrleonstark]

im so glad things like this are on youtube. this is really cool, i enjoy these videos!

[loneblindjedi]

Brother, I hear that crossing without a tone maks you nervous, but your attending to the tone and not the traffic where a tone is present makes me nervous.

Dear sighted viewers, I am not nervous when crossing busy streets and I find the tones distracting. I would rather listen to traffic.

[alehax27]

I can't believe nobody helped you. You shouldn't need to ask for help.

[shelleymagnussen1959]

The last time I trusted a sighted person on the street, I was almost killed. Thanks but NOOOOO thanks! Audible traffic signals don't detect cars running red lights. My seeing Eye dog does. This sighted guy trying to call my dog across the street was walking backward and nearly got nailed by a moving car. HELLO! How do these people with 20/20 survive into adulthoos? I bet more sighted people get hit by cars than blind people.

[MarcLloydZ]

@shelleymagnussen1959 how do you type?

[darktsukikat]

@shelleymagnussen1959

that's a good question

sometimes people cross the road even when its green

when there doesn't seem to be any cars coming

[susankohistany]

please be careful

[AMpufnstuf]

Another interesting and entertaining video, thanks Tommy!

[hauhau72]

Blind is killing God.

[PuresG1ft]

in germany we have buttons on the traffic lights which vibrate when its green. not as annoying as the sound shit and still helpfull (i suppose) also the bobble pave stones the uk guy talked about

[MessingWithMatches]

In the UK we have bobbled paving stones so you know where there is a crossing and aswell as the beeping there is a rotating dial underneath the button :] (not many people know this but if you twist the dial thing before it has changed then it changes the lights to red!)

[Soothsayer88]

every crossing in the UK has a little cone thingy sticking out of the bottom that spins when it's time to cross. Most people dont know that - my friends are always surprised when i point it out.

[itubeutude]

What a funny guy. Damn he's got guts.

[xtg360]

Fuck the guy in the blue prius

[3yearoldgenius]

Even blind people don't like priuses (priusi?)

[gavmcguinness8024]

All crossings (if not broken) here in Dublin, Ireland have a tone and the button vibrates when it is time to cross. When you have been growing up with that all your life, if is hard to believe that there are modern cities out there that don't have any!

[Caziegirl]

poor guy

[dasanjos]

Here in Europe, all crossing for pedestrians have the soft noise.

But after 11 in the night, all the residential crossing lights goes to yellow, so theres no beeping (and almost no cars or people crossing).

[RatzieM]

Toronto (Ontario, Canada) has some beeping crosswalks. However, they don't beep / vibrate ALL the time. You have to press the button and hold it down for a few seconds, to activate the beeping / vibrating. One downside of that is locating the button in the first place - it does make a quiet noise, but if you are blind and also deaf or hard of hearing, it's a challenge to find it or know it's there since not all signals have the beeping / vibration!

[yurianne07]

crossing nyc streets even with sight is life-and-death...

[sockpuppety]

Once I saw an aggitated blind girl at an intersection & asked if I could help. turned out she'd gone past a certain building at U of Toronto she was aiming for. She knew she'd gone too far but having missed it, wasn't sure how to backtrack. I ran down the block, identified the building, then walked with her to the entrance & she felt confident from there. I think she resented my helping, but I'm glad I stopped. When I'm lost, I ask for help, but I can see who's there to ask! My respect to her!

[bolaji321]

@sockpuppety Bless You My Friend, If People Were Like You, The World Will Be A Better Place

[thestalkinghead]

these are good videos and help you get in the mind set of a blind person, but there is one question that kind of bugs me but sounds bad to ask, so with honest curiosity, how do blind people know when to stop wiping after you go to the toilet?

[judefox2010]

Once I went to some experience blindness program where they had several fake environments set up (with no light, of course). There as was a grocery store, a park, a bar, a boat, and a street. Luckily we weren't tasked with crossing the street but I 'm pretty sure if it had been real all of us sighted people would have been squashed!

[thisisbossi]

In college I started trying to navigate the city with my eyes closed... got pretty good at it; got hit a few times; ran into a few things; but all in all a great experience to learn what it's like to navigate while visually impaired. Now I'm glad to say I get to apply it to my work as a traffic engineer, where audible signals (among other devices) are now standard in our area. Things are still far from perfect, but helping engineers gain this awareness and knowledge is the first important step.

[MercutioAndTheNudist]

In Japan, the crosswalks play little songs.

[DunxMisc]

If I saw you, I would help you cross the road :)

[noodleguru]

Wow! In that video some drivers are complete dicks, driving right in front and behind you while you're crossing. You have a cane, it's not like THEY can't see YOU.

[ThePLDTV]

Why didn't anyone help you cross the road? :(

[coffeekoneko]

The buttons on all of the busy streets in my town make little clicking sounds. Just out of curiosity, why don't you get a dog?

[itchyblood]

Most countries have them!

[KaiItza]

It's weird that America as a western country doesn't have traffic light signals (sounds mostly) for the blind, any western country I've been to so far has these EVERYWHERE.

[jdwillas]

@KaiItza Did you watch the video? We have them.

[KaiItza]

@jdwillas yeah but not everywhere

[AlexDelPiero07]

Oh boy, don't ever come to India.... Fuckin' drivers here crash and hit normal people who are legally crossing the street, if you're blind and without someone to help you, you might as well take your chances with Russian Roulette with a loaded gun....

[soguuud]

You are the man for showing us how blind people cope with the things most of us take for granted

[boredincan]

(hoping the video poster has JAWS)

By Australian law all crossings must have an audible sound. Slow beeps for don't walk and a tone then fast beeps for walk.

It is actually handy for the fully sighted as well. You can sit there on your phone, not paying attention to traffic, hear the beeps and cross

[kpfell]

@boredincan I live just outside of Houston, TX, and all of the crossings in my neighborhood (thankfully!) have audible sounds to indicate crossings. Crossings near schools, churches, or busy roads also have yellow traffic signs a few seconds back from the light saying "Crosswalk Used by the Blind," or something to that effect.

I always forget other areas don't have that sound, though, so while traveling, even I, while messing with my phone or chatting, end up missing my turn to cross!

[CensoredSmiffy]

This is standard in the UK, they all make beeps!

[rosydonut]

In london there are little metal things that spin around under the "wait" button.

You can touch them, and when they start spinning it's OK to cross.

[snikkel111]

Netherlands has the clickersystem aswell!

[kenzie0201]

@snikkel111 American money is not even blind people friendly!

[c0N3x]

Denmark got those beeping things to.. ;D

[ricewithcake]

Dang my University has a recorded message like, 1st street WALK SIGN IS ON and constantly repeats until it goes off. These should be placed everywhere.

[1111Davo1]

@tommyedisonXP come to australia! all our crossings have beepers and the button vibrates.

[amrhb90]

@tommy @1111Davo1 also in australian there bumps and bumped dashes on the footpaths (sidewalks) of central business districts. It is great for the visually impaired but it is a pain for skaters like me :p

[Jondelius]

@1111Davo1 Same in Sweden :)

[Mdzoul]

@1111Davo1 Same here in Singapore! ^^

[TheScarecrow23]

Dude I saw a blind guy in my neighborhood crossing the street and I felt really really bad cause the lights don't have a chirp and he was crossing while traffic was moving so I felt bad and scared at the same time hahaha good thing a jogger came out of no-where and helped

[MyBadGamertag]

It also wouldn't hurt to say to the other people crossing the street: "Hey man, I'm blind, mind telling me when it's safe to cross?"

[cwpatric]

yea the australian ones sound a little less obnoxious than this one, pretty subtle but still audible

[lavachoke]

im glad that every crosswalk has a bird chirp in my neighbourhood

[baltbail1]

in australia they have these. every crossing signal was like this and they ran all night. never kept me up

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[Pheenak]

very nice

[willbraham]

would you be apposed to lines you hold onto that have sensors on them? Maybe vibrate to tell you when you move it, move it?

[BlueHen123]

How do you know when the tone goes off it's for your side of the street, or maybe it's for the other direction? Do you just listen to the cars to determine who has the green light?

[TheTaratee]

You, sir, are much braver than I ever could be!! I would be terrified, I was feeling a bit scared just watching the video. You just might be my new hero.

[frenchirishcatholic]

where I live, the buttons have a speaker in them that say "safe to cross" or something like that. instead of some blaring beep or noise.

[rubiksmatt]

You make a great point, but can you imagine living in an apartment next to a beeping/sound-emitting crosswalk? You would go insane

[TommyEdisonXP]

@rubiksmatt Yeah. The one in Milford doesn't run all night. I believe it stops sometime in the evening.

[elseby]

@TommyEdisonXP You mean during the worst possible time for a blind person to cross a street unaided?

[iNoamfer]

@TommyEdisonXP Where I live, it makes clicking sounds. So it's rather relaxing, because it's not too loud (especially in your own apartment). It's kinda like how a metronome or a clock would calm you down. And it runs 24/7 and nobody is bothering.

[RegnstadsKatt]

@rubiksmatt

No. I've lived with it all my life. You just tune it out like everything else in a big city. Granted, it's not as annoying as the one in the vid but that's more of a retarded engineer problem. Not a beep problem.

[hootypatootie]

@rubiksmatt - The sound would be bad, but all the blind roadkill would get difficult to navigate around.

[jillloveschad]

@rubiksmatt and I'm sure that life must be so much worse than living in a world of complete darkness.

[babyslime]

@rubiksmatt All of the crosswalks in my city do that, you get used to it. :)

[Eyelessguy1987]

Many of those tones are actually set up to adjust to the level of traffic and they will adjust how loud they are. If there is no traffic they will quiet way down

[XaDvAnT]

@rubiksmatt You'd already be insane from the noise of the traffic though.

[Moniifee]

@rubiksmatt

Yes, You can. I live in front of one, and got used to it. :]

[linguisticsandjazz]

@rubiksmatt There's a chirping intersection right next to my school...for the deaf...which means the class itself is completely silent (sign language) and we're right near the street so the whole class all I hear is periodic beeping followed by "It is now safe to cross...14...13...12...11..." LOL

[joecooper18]

roads in america are terrible. I nearly got run over a few times while traveling the west coast. What makes it worse is that the drivers seem to speed up if they see you crossing.

[sirloinsteak19]

Do a video on getting dressed by yourself (matching clothes) or clothing shopping in general

[zenonzinho12]

What the... In the middle of the video I really tough that I would see a car crash.