While AIRA is in the USA, they can telephone your local Police to describe what they see with your camera-glasses or on your Phone’s camera and hear. If they know where you are, you can expect to hear help arriving while they are still twenty-blocks away! I asked SIRI one day for the telephone number for The Metropolitan Police, London. Gave the correct country code, city code and seven-digit number! Also knows how to phone the Heat in Amsterdam and Paris as well as Chicago & New York Brian K. MNeeded 911 one dayy, but in New YYork Coity, not Ottawa. Called Police Headquaarters, explained I was out of town, needed a 9 at which utterance their switchboard operator pressed the transfer button. About one second later, a different voice said: “911 Pollice, Fire, Energency.” That is quickk answering! When HQ tramsfers you, you go to the Head of the Queue. I explained what I was concerned about, they asked various questions, I answered them, they said we will loook into it/! Hadd a call from the person I was concerned about they sure did! Fast too. Lingard VE3YI, Ab2JI, B.. A., C. T. M. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf of Cristóbal Muñoz Sent: January 29, 2019 6:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Aira This is one thing I have been interested to know as far as what if any training Aira agents have had for scenarios where the person using the service may find himself or herself in. Be it outright danger or in situations that perhaps do not rise to this level, but may present uncomfortable issues. Like what are their policies for handling such matters? What is their obligation say if while person X is using Aira and the agent sees someone in the foreground approaching him or her or taking a particular interest in what they are doing and so on? If they are a victim of a crime, while using Aira? Cristóbal From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf of Bill Outman Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 3:10 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: Aira I was not going to jump in on this thread, but your post caught my attention. Some of these apps and services will be discussed on a technology call I will be on in a few hours sponsored through Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired. You mentioned stranger danger. This is a social issue for me that sometimes keeps me from asking for help. I have seen AIRA demonstrated at various NFB state and national conventions I have attended, but the cost is a limiting factor for me now. I have Be My Eyes on my phone but haven’t used it out of the issue of dealing with someone I don’t know, and admit even the name of the app reminds me squarely of my limitations. I have not even learned how to use Facetime, though I think I could do it. Seeing AI and K-NFB Reader are both part of my world. The stranger issue has kept me from trying Uber and Lyft, even though I have both apps. Yet I can use cabs and the local paratransit, and even used it in another community for a convention. I am glad all these services and apps exist to give us more choices than we used to have, but I need help in working through some of my issues to use these options more effectively. Bill Outman Secretary, Greater Daytona Beach Chapter National Federation of the Blind of Florida From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf of Cristóbal Muñoz Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2019 5:30 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: Aira Good God… When did this become a commentary on pseudo-social anthropology? Everyone has different needs and lifestyles. Maybe
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