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I like the traffic light indicators on the floor when I look at my phone (piefed.jeena.net)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Normally when you need to wait at a crossing because it's red you take out your phone to waste some time. But you have to be quite anxious and look up if it's already green or not, otherwise you miss the green light.

But they help you out with that here in Korea by building in the traffic light into the curb. You're looking down on your phone and see the red line left and right of it. Once it changes to green you immediately are aware of it because it's in your field of view constantly.

Great invention!

I took the background picture just outside and put the stock picture hands with a phone on top of it so you can easier visualize it how it looks like in reality.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I bet it works well for when the sun is in your eyes, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Intense sunlight could make it hard to see the lights on the ground, no?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

During those rare moments you're outside, it's called the "ground."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

In my opinion it wouldn’t work everywhere - I was surprised to see how orderly people were in Seoul when I was there a couple years ago. No matter how crowded, everyone was standing in lines, waiting - even if they were watching Netflix or YouTube in the meantime.

Here, we are actively warned against using phones or headsets when crossing the streets (signs painted on the street), exactly because some drivers watch TikTok and whatnot WHILE driving. I find it sad that here pedestrians have to accommodate careless drivers.

Nevertheless, I like the idea, just hope it won’t be a thing here before we can get things to be a bit more orderly on the streets.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Literally nothing works everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Fair enough

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m glad I seem to be not the only one to be disgusted by the concept. Like, wtf? If you are addicted to the phone so much that for the couple dozen of seconds you wait, a ground light is “helpful” for you, you belong to psychiatry/addictoligy department of your nearest hospital. Jesus fucking christ.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

My city installed it on some crossing, it's pretty nice looking as well.

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