Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah except the tones and walk messages still play, it just doesn't spam wait over and over at a red. Do you think because it's playing a satirical message blind people will ignore the tones and just start running into traffic?
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#13this is fun. it seems most of these crosswalks can be configured via app from https://polara.com/ . So either the authentication was leaked or got physically flashed/hacked?
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Yeah except the tones and walk messages still play, it just doesn't spam wait over and over at a red. Do you think because it's playing a satirical message blind people will ignore the tones and just start running into traffic?
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#16If we could not fuck with accessibility devices which disabled people rely on, that'd be great. Thanks.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
One does not have to be harmed by an action to be able to call out that it would have harmful impact.
No harmful impact has been called out.
> which disabled people rely on
is pretty clear implication. But I'll spell it out for you - people with impairment to senses (primarily vision) rely on this infrastructure to know when it's safe to cross a road.
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Were you severely inconvenienced by this hack? If so, how?
One does not have to be harmed by an action to be able to call out that it would have harmful impact.
I'd prefer to hear an actual example over broad outrage tho