Indeed, and not just fast, but often heavily robotic (which many sighted people struggle to understand even at 1.5x). I remember reading about a blind person who learned how to do echo-location using sound, and it seemed like such a cool superpower, that one of these days I'm going to take the plunge and unplug my monitor and start learning how to really use the tools. I worked with a blind person a few years back who got almost double the battery life from his laptop as the rest of us by having the screen off all the time, so that alone would be a nice feature. I may never get to the epic level of echo-location, but if I get even half-way there it would be awesome. With a bonus of being able to actually QA a11y changes.

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Barbing 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> blind person who learned how to do echo-location using sound

RIP kid https://youtu.be/fnH7AIwhpik

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thrownthatway 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I’m not gonna watch that as I’d rather stick to my head-canon that he had an altercation with a dolphin.

	▲	Barbing 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		:) IIRC that video would have been fully produced/published during his lifetime (but 100% would have to avoid the comments!) If he’d like your humor I like it too :dolphin:

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thrownthatway 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> echo-location

We all do that, I mean unless you’re hearing impaired.

Everyone’s familiar with dropping a coin or such and knowing exactly where it landed without looking.

That’s more passive sonar though.

Do I recall seeing videos of guys mountain biking and making a hissing sound for an active sonar style echo location?

Or am I making that memory up.