A city in South Korea has installed flickering lights and laser beams at a road crossing to warn
A city in South Korea, which has the world’s highest smartphone penetration rate, has installed flickering lights and laser beams at a road crossing to warn “smartphone zombies” to look up and drivers to slow down, in the hope of preventing road deaths.
The designers of the system were prompted by a growing worry that pedestrians glued to their phones will drive up what is already some of the highest road fatality and injury rates among developed countries.
South Korea’s state-run Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) believes its system of flickering lights mounted on zebra crossings can effectively warn both pedestrians and drivers.
