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wickerwoman

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11. Dogs are mostly colourblind.

Fri May 2, 2014, 01:32 AM

May 2014

They're trained to respond to the physical change in level on the kerb which is why there isn't an easy solution. And it's not easy to retrain the existing guide dogs to follow a different system. It takes more than a year to train them in the first place.

In the Auckland CBD, 99% of the roads have regular kerbs and then two or three side streets are shared spaces. There is no way for the dog to recognise that OK, yes now I'm in a shared space where I follow different rules from the 99% of other places I travel.

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No traffic lights experiment in English village [View all] PumpkinAle May 2014 OP

No traffic lights, no signs, no lines, no curbs?... PoliticAverse May 2014 #1

This is in Addis Abada........... PumpkinAle May 2014 #8

Cool stuff. We're getting more roundabouts MineralMan May 2014 #2

Roundabouts are an absolute delight compared to 4-way stop signs (nt) Nye Bevan May 2014 #3

Oh, I agree, but you should see people scream when some MineralMan May 2014 #5

The trick is to slowly drive up to one so that there is no confusion as to who goes next. Lars39 May 2014 #10

When they work they are great, though PumpkinAle May 2014 #7

Shared space has been a trend in Europe for a number of years wickerwoman May 2014 #4

They did think of the disabled and PumpkinAle May 2014 #6

Dogs are mostly colourblind. wickerwoman May 2014 #11

Interesting - it's busier than I expected it would be possible for, but it looks to have worked well muriel_volestrangler May 2014 #9

Excellent! struggle4progress May 2014 #12