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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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TAPPING? You POLITICIANS! Don't you realize that the END of the "Wash
Cycle" is a TREASURED MOMENT for most people?!
(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.