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Pavement Lights Guide 'Smartphone Zombies'

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday February 18 2017, @07:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the walking-oblivious dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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 Kawumpa on Sunday February 19 2017, @03:15PM

    by Kawumpa (1187) on Sunday February 19 2017, @03:15PM (#468945)

    In Canada, supposedly, Muslims want the right to not have to wear helmets on a motorcycle.

    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

    by Gaaark (41) on Sunday February 19 2017, @03:57PM (#468956) Journal

    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

      by wumbler (1680) on Sunday February 19 2017, @06:14PM (#469006)

      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

        by Gaaark (41) on Sunday February 19 2017, @06:53PM (#469023) Journal

        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

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2017, @07:02PM (#469028)

        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.