How exciting! Students at Ohio State School for the Blind are testing a new kind of paint – smart paint – that can make outside navigation safer for people who are blind or have visual impairments!
The smart paint is used on crosswalks, and it pairs with sensors installed in students’ canes 🦯 to alert them when they reach the borders of a crosswalk.
“Every large university has a significant population of blind and visually impaired students,” says John Lannutti, a professor from The Ohio State University’s college of Engineering who is leading the study. “Getting them from point A to point B can be difficult and sometimes dangerous, especially when automobile traffic is involved.”
Lannutti’s team proposes to add smart paint to campus intersections to ensure students who are blind or low vision can navigate the campus safely by staying inside crosswalks. Great start to making streets safer! Read more in the article below.