From The Field: Glidance Kicks Off Pacific Coast Beta Testing Road Trip

If there's one thing that Ellie Carlson - Glidance's new Head of O&M - loves, it's a good road trip. Over the years Ellie has put thousands of miles on her Winnebago, "Solis", offering a mobile solution for field-based orientation and mobility services, as well as guide dog mobility services.

Now, she gets to hit the road with a handful of the latest Glide prototypes, alongside Glidance's Product Director Lorien Miller, to expand our beta testing program throughout the West Coast.

Over the next 10 days, Ellie and Lorien will be driving from Portland to Los Angeles to work closely with our Founding Gliders on developing the Glide "technique", collecting feedback, and testing out Glide in a number of new environments and scenarios.

As much of Glide's rigorous testing and data collection has been done around the Seattle area - close to Glidance's lab - this road trip gives the team a chance to put Glide's latest learnings to the test out in the wild, while collecting critical feedback from our Founding Gliders, who will be the first to receive their Glides.

We'll be sharing updates from the road across our social media channels (https://www.instagram.com/glidance.io/, https://www.linkedin.com/company/glidance-inc/), and be uploading videos to our YouTube channel.

We're looking forward to meeting more of our community, and are excited to share what we learn!

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