Using a smartphone while walking has become a common habit. The appearance of "zombies", i.e. pedestrians engrossed in their smartphones, is becoming an increasingly pressing problem in urban traffic. Because of people's carelessness, many traffic accidents happen. Some time ago, the Germans answered this with floor traffic lights (LED lights built into the pavement that glow red and green), and in the Netherlands they invented a similar type of traffic signal that responds to the challenges of the time. Those in charge probably can't prevent us from using a smartphone, but they can prevent accidents...
"Zombies" (coined from the word smartphone and zombie) due to smartphones they forget about observation happenings around you and have become a serious problem in urban traffic, as they cause many accidents due to their carelessness traffic accidents. As a solution, applications such as Watch Out!, which warns phone owners about dangerous crossings, in German Augsburg and Cologne but they have in some places floor traffic lights.
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The Dutch have now come up with something similar, more precisely a city Bodengraven, where some traffic lights were synchronized with the device z LED lights, who draw on the sidewalk green or red line (see video). Ours detects this peripheral vision – this detects objects that are not directly in the field of view – even if we stare at the phone screen. The project is currently in a trial phase in the vicinity of some schools, but if it proves to be successful, they will continue with this type traffic signals also equipped other traffic lights.
Floor scoreboard in Augsburg, Germany:
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