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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: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday February 19 2017, @01:16AM
This is probably an unpopular opinion here, but I am a motorist first and a cyclist/pedestrian second. When I cross a crosswalk I jog across it, because when that motorist is in the middle of the intersection for their unprotected left turn waiting for your ass to walk out of their path, the safer it will be for everybody else so there's no last-minute cluster-fuck at the yellow light. If the road is totally clear I'll even run across 4-lane boulevards to avoid tying up some intersection later.
There is nothing which makes my blood boil more than seeing fuckers slowly shuffle across the crosswalk when they know there's a queue of cars waiting to make unprotected left-turns at the intersection. Old people, gimps, and the mentally ill get a free pass (the latter because they're entertaining to watch) but others are just being lazy or rude shimmying and shuffling (especially Blacks) slowly across just to be difficult.
(Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Sunday February 19 2017, @02:43AM
here, I avoid jogging because I don't want to be moving faster than expected through the intersection.
Doubly true if I am mounted on my bike.
That said, I don't exactly shuffle either.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday February 19 2017, @07:15AM
I see, you just couldn't resist adding a bit of racism to your post.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2017, @06:58PM
FWIW: that's been my observation as well. They are usually the heavyset black women with loads of attitude. I think they purposefully go slow so that they can make some kind of personal statement about how important they are.