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Pavement lights have been installed at a pedestrian crossing in a Netherlands town to help smartphone users cross the road safely.
The light strips are designed to catch the eye of people looking down at their device, and change colour to match traffic signals.
The lure of games and social media has come "at the expense of attention to traffic", said councillor Kees Oskam.
But Dutch road safety group VVN said the idea "rewards bad behaviour".
Augsburg, Germany has done much the same thing according to the Washington Post.
Will pavement lights built into kerbs curb accidents?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by BsAtHome on Saturday February 18 2017, @07:56PM
The people who are careless should reap the benefit of the Darwinian evolutionary process and remove themselves from the gene pool. We should not try to keep those who are stupid and careless mobile phone junkies in the gene pool at all cost. As stated, it rewards bad behaviour. They might even get themselves a Darwin Award if they succeed to remove themselves from the gene pool.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 18 2017, @08:15PM
Hack the system to make pavement lights green when the regular lights are red, and let Darwin cull the herd.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by jIyajbe on Saturday February 18 2017, @09:56PM
I used to be an EMT. I have been to car vs. pedestrian accidents, including fatalities. None of the drivers who had just killed a person were saying "Good, another idiot out of the gene pool." They were shocked, horrified, and traumatized; and, usually sobbing. It is something they will remember all of their lives.
A person who has just been killed by a car, or by a bullet, looks NOTHING like what you see on TV, or in the movies. It is horrifying, in the most literal sense of that word.
"Don't blame the log for the fire." --Andrew Ratshin
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday February 19 2017, @12:12AM
In Canada, supposedly, Muslims want the right to not have to wear helmets on a motorcycle. I say fine, so long as THEY have to pay the hospital bill and it DOESN'T come in as free Medicare.
Be stupid somewhere else or pay for the consequences yourself.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1) by Kawumpa on Sunday February 19 2017, @03:15PM
Let me guess, the word "supposedly" makes your unreferenced statement ok, right? Do you have any idea why Muslims would want that or did you make that up on the spot?
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday February 19 2017, @03:57PM
No
http://www.citynews.ca/2016/06/14/should-turban-wearing-sikhs-be-exempt-from-motorcycle-helmet-laws/ [citynews.ca]
I just didn't want to have to Google and format the URL on a tablet.
Of course you could have just googled it yourself................
Kawumpasayswhat?
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(Score: 2, Informative) by wumbler on Sunday February 19 2017, @06:14PM
Oh dear! Someone didn't do their homework.
Sikhs are NOT Muslims. Sikhism is its own religion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism [wikipedia.org]
In today's lesson we learned: Just because someone has (typically) darker skin, and (typically) wears a turban and might (typically) have a beard, that doesn't mean that they are Muslim.
People and their religions come in all sorts of varieties. Isn't this amazing? :-)
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday February 19 2017, @06:53PM
Wow... Drama much?
My faux pas. I will go kill myself now.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2017, @07:02PM
So are you backing off your morally superior "supposedly" criticism post because you caught him on a technicality? It seems to me that your original high-horsiness statement applies whether he's talking about muslims or sikhs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2017, @03:35AM
That's not surprising. Head wounds in particular bleed a lot. Not to mention the mangling that happens when thousands of pounds of car run over bones.
That being said, fatal crashes are most often the result of either intoxication or inattention. Ideally, everybody would be paying attention when approaching intersections and roadways, but in practice, a lot of people seem to feel that they don't have to. Unfortunately for pedestrians and cyclists, they're the ones that tend to get killed rather than the people riding around in large crash cages.
Around here, the idiots on the city council are lowering speed limits across the city so that when people are hit they're less likely to be killed. But, they're still not doing anything meaningful about the distractions and intoxication that are causing most of the fatalities. It doesn't much matter how low you lower the speed limits if the people driving are still not looking where they're driving. It probably will help a bit with the fatalities from drunk driving, but only in cases where the drunk driver is adhering to the speed limit, which they often times don't.
We've even had people seriously injured when cyclists ran people over.
I walk around and I ride a motorcycle and I pretty much assume that most of the motorists are trying to kill me. There've been an uncomfortable number of times over the years where the only reason I wasn't run over was that I was paying attention.