People occasionally may desire some form of assistance to locate or verify their route or destination while moving from point-to-point. This desire for assistance may be heightened for the blind or visually impaired versus people with sight, because blind or visually impaired people may be unable or less able to fix their general direction based on visual object, such as, road signs, landmarks, the sun, or stars, for example.
Currently, the blind or visually impaired may rely on guide dogs, human guides, asking people for advice, calling someone via cellular phone, or using an existing support service while moving from point-to-point or from a stationary position. Some support services such as the Personal Navigation and Information System for Users of Public Transport (NOPPA) system in Finland, may operate with automated voice recognition and may provide an automated voice response derived by global positioning system (GPS) data & other mapping data.
The OnStar system provided by General Motors in their vehicles may use GPS and other mapping data to obtain location data for a client inside a car. OnStar may provide live human-to-human voice contact and support so that specific macro and micro data may be exchanged between the client inside the car and the OnStar live support technician.
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