• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    They technically are unsafe. They screw with Seeing Eye Dogs. That being said, it’s just as easy to hang Pride Flags at cross walks.

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      23 hours ago

      https://www.rnib.org.uk/news/multi-coloured-road-crossings-pose-a-threat-to-people-with-sight-loss-warn-charities/

      RNIB Scotland Director, James Adams, said: “Traditional black and white pedestrian crossings offer high contrast, which is essential for people with low vision to detect and cross roads safely. Designs and colours which are not consistent with traditional designs could cause confusion to people with sight loss, and to guide dogs which are trained to stop at crossings.

      You’ll also have to train dogs to recognize both approaches because the starting color will be different.

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      24 hours ago

      They technically are unsafe. They screw with Seeing Eye Dogs.

      I think this might be true. Do you know of any published studies on this?

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          20 hours ago

          I don’t want to dispute this, because it’s just provably true, but I have never been able to figure out why my dog’s favorite color was red. It was definitely 100% his favorite color, even when there were balls that looked identical in every other way except were green, which should have appeared like pretty much the same color to him. And it wasn’t just a single favorite ball. He preferred red for several different toys that came in packs of multiple identical units except for color.