You're absolutely right: when you're navigating a street where the auditory feedback is your lifeline, adding a digital voice into the mix isn't just "challenging"—it can be a dangerous distraction. High-tech "solutions" often feel like they were designed for a quiet sidewalk in Zurich, not a high-decibel junction in Bangalore.
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of anirudh rao Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2026 11:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AI] Re: Share your road safety experience (and your solution idea) — we’re building a national case no technology is seriously useful on the Indian roads as blind, we heavily depend on auditory feedback. as the roads are noisy, independent travel with a help of technology is a serious joke. On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 10:43 PM Saurav Hegde <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi, I agree with you. Honestly, I have given up for now. How are we going to censetise drivers who got a licence by bribing an RTO officer. The roads have become a total joke, honking constantly, rikshaw drivers being one of the biggest nuisance, anyone cutting from anywhere, driving on the footpath, parking on the footpath and bus drivers who keep moving forward without caring to look behind. Few drops of rains come our roads become almost non-existent and then remaining time goes in repairing them. Even if we have technologies, they are likely to fail in Ihere. Thanks, Saurav On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 7:22 PM anirudh rao <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: It is not just the infrastructure but the mentality. you said "crossing roads without audible signals, dealing with silent vehicles," what use is an audible signal if everyone honks as loud as possible in every crossing? I don't understand why we are just measuring development and accessibility only in terms of infrastructure. the silent vehicles feel silent to us because of the incredible cacophony that we have on our Indian roads. On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 5:21 PM Mister Kayne <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello Lovely, Thank you for sharing the form and for the important work you’re doing to bring these issues into the national road safety conversation. I did try filling out the form; however, although fields like name and phone number are marked as optional, I’m unable to proceed without providing a contact number. I’m not comfortable sharing my phone number at this point, so I couldn’t submit the form. That said, I’ve already emailed you my observations, lived experiences, and suggestions in detail, and I hope those inputs can still be considered as part of the evidence you’re compiling. Thank you once again for taking this up on behalf of the community, and I appreciate your understanding. Warm regards, Mister Kayne Author: The Somebody, Nobody, Anybody & Everybody Blog!<https://www.mister-kayne.com/p/be-awesome-show-your-love-for-somebody.html> Mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent from iPhone® On 18 Mar 2026, at 5:00 PM, RSKC-Rising Star Khilte Chehre <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 5 minutes from you can help make roads safer for 5 million people. Please share your insight, opinion, experiences in the form here <http://goog_894603398> https://forms.gle/QPS5WAZPWs2AUMyTA Road safety in India currently does not account for visually impaired pedestrians as a primary user group. This means that for millions of people, stepping out of home itself becomes a risk — not because of inability, but because systems were never designed to include them. By taking real experiences from the community into national-level road safety conversations. But for this to be taken seriously, we need evidence. And that evidence comes from you. This form will take just 5 minutes. Your responses will directly contribute to building solutions, influencing policy, and making roads safer — not just for visually impaired citizens, but for everyone. Your experience is not small. It is what can change the system. On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 at 16:32, RSKC-Rising Star Khilte Chehre <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Respected Members, I am Lovely Sarkar Soti, Mission Head of Rising Star Khilte Chehre. To get to the point, many people ask what the biggest barrier is in their journeys. Honestly, it isn't the travel alone—it's the road before the journey even begins. Daily risks, such as crossing roads without audible signals, dealing with silent vehicles, and unclear traffic patterns, prevent many of us from stepping out confidently. This is not an individual challenge. It is a system design gap affecting millions of visually impaired citizens across India. I am personally working to bring this issue into the national road safety conversation. For that, we need your real experiences and your ideas. If you have faced unsafe situations on roads — near-misses, confusion at crossings, lack of signals — please share a short voice note or message detailing what happened and where. 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