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Why is a blind cane red on the end?

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red is a universal color for danger...it can alert a car or passerby more quickly (seeing the movement of red)....also, since white canes or used by low vision individuals as well as totally blind, the red tip offers good contrast in most cases for the low vision person to locate it.

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