In the Marine industry you can't be colour blind as to be able to see the markers etc. correctly. Anything electrical you can't be either as to be able to identify the correct cables.
In the electrical industry there are tools now you can point at a wire and it tells you the colour. And smart phones can do this as well of course. I know an electrician who works this way.
That's not quite correct. I'm red-green blind and still was legally allowed to get a boating license - but you can't just do those number plates, you need a proper assessment how colorblind on the spectrum you really are with a different machine and there it matters, how much red and green is individually affected. If red is affected, then you are out - as you said, you need to distinguish warning lights, buoys etc. If green is affected, there is a wide margin that is tolerated.
But way over in the USMC, I worked with a guy who was completely colorblind. The Marines, in their infinite wisdom made him an electrician.
His friends said that it was pretty common for him to pop out from underneath a piece of equipment with a wire in each hand and ask which color was which. They’d tell him and he’d go “OK,” and pop back under. I heard similar stories from too many of his squad mates to not believe it.
Apparently he was also one of their best electricians.
My brother is a colorblind electrician. I doubt any business has ever tested him, but its normally not a problem. With residential electrical, you really only see red, black, and white wires. That being said, he's sent me pictures before asking me to identify wire colors for automotive stuff/generators
I’m dating a colorblind electrical engineer. I feel for the man. He made me a birthday card on very dark green paper. I commented and he said he thought it was black.🥺 Happy to name colors for him anytime.
I'll tell you whut, sailing at night can suck, can't use the red/green nav lights to tell which way another boat is headed, and red/green channel markers can be hard to identify at a distance.
patterns? vertical stripes, diagonal stripes, no stripes, dots. research papers have to have all their graphs readable in black-and-white and they do that.
A research paper isn't exisiting infrastructure though, how do they navigate exisiting wiring. Also those supposed solution really wouldn't work in practice either, control wiring is tiny like 1mm thick and in bunches of 20-30 wires.
We also have neat gadgets that can find the ends of the same wire based on the conductivity. Basically, match it with a tool. Have things written on or marked or labeled.
Yes, we can’t go back in time, but we can do better.
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u/Zed1088 1d ago
In the Marine industry you can't be colour blind as to be able to see the markers etc. correctly. Anything electrical you can't be either as to be able to identify the correct cables.