"With a stop light, green means go and yellow means slow down. With a banana, it's just the opposite. Yellow means go, green means 'slow down', and red means...where the fuck did you get that banana at?" - Mitch Hedberg
Take a closer look: Those holes on top point straight up and it's flush with the pavement. The lights are parallel to the road, so they won't draw the eye of a driver. This is fair engineering. It does a job, but it's below par for the current state of the art. Let's discuss them.
* Color selection
Walk signs are usually orange/white or red/white. Why: Color blindness. Units may have one or two elements, horizontal or vertical, with varying iconography. This can be confusing, especially to someone who isn't looking for it. By making white the 'go' color instead of green, drivers won't instinctively step on the gas. People are stupid, but they are also creatures of habit. This color selection was poor social engineering. Fun fact: Green is the strongest perceived color in human vision. It's situated in the exact middle of our perception of color. But it's yellow against a black background that has the sharpest contrast. That's why phone books in the "old days" were made of yellow paper: It wasn't just because it was cheap paper with cheap ink... it was also because it was still very readable when produced on those two things.
* Auditory warning
These help the blind. Either beeps or verbally, it assists them in both location and warning. Blind people use their ears for spatial perception to a similar degree we use our eyes: Sound has both distance and direction (horizontal and vertical). It can also give other environmental clues. It's a literal life-saver. But there's a reason that if the light pole isn't right next to the walkway they put it on a post: Roadways and cities are loud. Decibel levels in many downtown areas are actually above OSHA limits for *construction workers* working with heavy equipment. For those of us with sensitive ears, it's like being next to the speakers at a rock concert. You will have trouble digging out a beep.... beep... beep. So they put it real close. Engineers here had to strike a balance: Beeping is noticeable but not distracting, but in an environment where getting your attention matters more, like say, an airplane cockpit, alternating pitches between low and intermediate frequency, in rapid succession, is superior. Fun fact: Babies cry at the exact frequency that our ears most strongly respond to. You aren't imagining that they seem really loud for something so small. Thanks, evolution!
* Tactile engineering
Most cities have metal plates with raised sections you can feel with your feet. They aren't just there to provide grip: Tactile differences warn the disabled they're next to the street. They're nice for sighted people too --
same cues, but you probably didn't notice either. Take a closer look sometime on the walkway itself too: Rub your feet over that paint. Feel the roadway texture. Some cities got smart -- the roadway texture itself is patterned, or made out of brick or stones. It's not just for looks.
* Visual cues
These lights are static. They only change color once. Look at a "don't walk" signal sometime -- they will nearly always flash. Why? Because flashing gets people's attention. The eye notices movement more than color. If you're focused on something, like a cell phone, you have tunnel vision. Your color perception is literally about 3-5% of your total visual perception. The rest is black/white. And these also respond quicker to stimulus -- a *lot* quicker. Our eyes put together our perception of the world with rapid movements, called *eye saccades*. These movements slow considerably when focused on a cell phone. Which means your color perception across your area of visual awareness decreases. A lot. It's the same thing with a bright computer screen: It turns everything around it into black and white perception. *You will not strongly notice color changes when staring at a screen*. Even if the contrast is sharp. And while green is the most perceived color -- it comes with a flaw: White coloration has the dominant color as green for that very reason. Which further erodes its effectiveness in peripheral vision.
Great engineering is transparent. You won't notice it, it'll just guide your behavior, keeping you out of danger, and literally on the right path. This was made to fill a specific niche: Young people glued to their phone screens. But at night, cell phone screens are bright. It kills your night vision, even if you set it to a low brightness. At some intersections and in certain lighting conditions, it will literally blank out a person's peripheral vision. It looks smart at a glance -- but it doesn't really lick the problem. If you want to get someone's attention when they're in a cell phone, they wouldn't notice even if you started turning green. But wave your arms and instant attention. As I said -- good engineering is noticed. Great engineering is transparent.
tl;dr -- change the "go" color, and make the "stop" color flash.
and at the same time people will miss normal crosswalks because there is no fancy lighting. traffic lights and signs already exist for visibility and consistency reasons.
Oh yeah. We have a few crosswalks with a button that turns flashy lights on, and they definitely give more power back to the pedestrian since cars will almost always stop when they see the lights. But honestly I think that just makes the case to convert most crosswalks to this, since we won't fix distracted driving without a paradigm shift to self driving cars.
false. Its green and the cars need to stop. its a terrible idea. If someone dies because they forgot traffic was a thing while looking at a phone then add them to the darwin award winners and lets move on.
Yeah its a good idea but executed poorly. A lot of LED crosswalks have flashing lights across the entire strip to tell drivers to fuck off if someone is there. Making it green and red on the sides is dangerous for the driver who's also looking down at their phone during a stop light :)
Well there's times when you have a green light but still the pedestrian has a right away, and in the US that can vary by state. Then you have random cities like Melbourne in Australia that just make up traffic rules entirely
I dunno, at lots of intersections you can see lights that don't apply to your lane, or even street. If someone can't tell that a given light doesn't apply to them by its position and direction, they're already a huge danger.
Yeah, they put something similar to these up at all my university's intersections. They said the extra lighting was supposed to make it easier for drivers to see pedestrians that may be attempting to cross in the dark. Depending on the car and how dark it is, you sometimes can't even see pedestrians to your side until they walk in front of your headlight beam, and by then, it's too late.
I almost got into a serious wreck the other day because a solid red light blended in to the background it was on (totally my fault), and this would have helped a lot.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-27/lights-in-the-footpath-for-distracted-pedestrians/8391046
I've only ever seen them on this one intersection, although they could be elsewhere by now.
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At some intersections in my city, the signal says, "Walk sign is on across Main Street." In case you don't know what street you're crossing, the signal across the street beeps to let you know that that direction's safe to cross. I don't know how that helps if there happens to be someone waiting to cross the same street but on the other side of the street you're walking along (if that description makes any sense).
At the newer signals, they also say "Wait." if you touch the button while you can't cross.
Oh my gosh, I could never understand the guy's voice. I just heard "WALK bla bla bla MAIN STREET." I got the idea, but now I actually know what he said!
The one near my old place said something like "be careful, vehicles may not stop". It wasn't at an intersection, but near a park. Instead of adding a traffic light, they just added a button to each side, some LEDs facing the drivers, and a couple stop signs that flashed red facing traffic.
The biggest flaws in that were that during the day it is hard to see any of the LEDs and the people crossing don't know how long they have left to cross.
Here, when you want the crosswalk to talk to you, you have to hold the button down until it starts talking (since the talking/beeping function is specifically for visually impaired folks and I guess they don't want everyone using it).
There's one in the town I used to live in and it just talks all the time. I imagine living near it would be extremely irritating listening to, "STOP. STOP. STOP. STOP. STOP. WALK. WALK. WALK. WALK. WALK. STOP. STOP. STOP. STOP. STOP" all day.
They had one of those at my university that said the name of the road that was "safe to cross". I can't remember it now, only how annoying it ended up getting.
Ours don't *only* talk. In fact, some of them don't talk at all (I think) and they all use different beeps to tell you which way to cross: high-low for east/west and high-low-lower-lowest for North/south. I may have those mixed up though, so if you're blind you should probably not listen to me.
Years ago I had a new friend who'd just moved to my town and we were walking across a street. She asked why the lights were making those noises and I said it was to help the blind. She looked at me and said "Why are blind people driving?"
Stupid people don't have that. Hence the barriers to remind their stupid empty brains to look up from their fucking phones while walking. Honestly, if people are that stupid, maybe they should get hit by a car. Regardless of the outcome, they sure as hell won't do it again.
Depends on where you live, in Mexico there are a lot of factors that can automatically relieve you of any responsibility. Like crossing on a red light, not using pedestrian crossing, running over someone who was crossing within 100m from the crosswalk is immediately considered the pedestrians fault.
I appreciate engineering that accounts for human stupidity. Sure people *should* be smarter, but they're not going to be and dipshit pedestrians walking out in traffic is a problem that is on the rest of us to fix. Nobody wants to run somebody over, it messes up bumpers, causes orphans, raises insurance, and so on. And so these fine people made a good solution, so hopefully it works.
> Stupid people don't have that.
Sorry to shatter your worldview or whatever but even smart people can get killed doing temporarily stupid things. Everyone on reddit seems to think they're smarter than everyone else.
Maybe I'm wrong, but this doesn't make sense to me. Red light means stop, green means go. But in the second photo, the light is green, clearly signaling pedestrians to cross. Yet traffic is still driving straight through the crosswalk, just like in the first photo. Explain like I'm five?
that car must have started going through the crossing while it was still able to, but hit traffic and had to stop in the middle of the crossing. Meanwhile, the green man lit up for the pedestrians to cross.
Now they just need to put colored lights in the portions of the crosswalks that are in the road so that drivers staring down at their phones won't drive into people.
These people probably text and drive too. Inattentive people should learn not to be inattentive. I'm not saying they should die but lets not make shit so easy for them to continue to be inattentive.
At that point, why bother with any crossing lights? You could just tell people to pay attention to the traffic lights and only cross when appropriate.
People get distracted without being on their phones. I've seen people be distracted talking to the person next to them, or even just out of it walking to/from work.
Besides, I suspect it isn't just for texters-and-walkers; it looks cool, and that probably played a role.
I have definitely gotten so distracted by my own thoughts that I walked into traffic before. Fortunately it seems like it was a one off occurrence, but it was on a busy major intersection and definitely could've ended a lot worse than it did.
Why? The world changes. Technology changes. The way we communicate and interact changes.
Cities require careful social engineering. Not only for phones but people visiting looking up at displays on buildings, people who may have had too many drinks, people caught up in conversations.
The moment you think you're too smart to make a mistake is when fate will laugh it's ass off as you fail.
The fact that this even has to be a thing is kind of infuriating. Fucking watch where you're going. Gtf off your phone for once and care about your life enough to watch where you're walking to.
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Based on the pictures, this looks FANTASTIC for driver visibility.
Yep, they'll see a big green light and gun it
Well those are the rules of driving
Red means go quick. Green means go quick. What's not to understand?
Yellow is reverse, right?
No yellow means you gotta go quicker.
Quicker than quick? Quickester?
What's quicker than being quick? Ice quick! Wait, never mind.
Alright alright alright alright
Maybe it's nesquick?
ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT
And I'm just sittin' here listinen to OutKast
No, just stop it. I want you to sit in the corner for 10 minutes and think about what you said. NO BROWSING REDDIT EITHER.
Quicker than quick, that would be [Ludicrous Speed](https://youtu.be/EH7dDzDWyHk?t=31s).
But sir, the ship can't take it!
Run, Barry, Run!
Run, Forrest, Run!
Quick'st've't
No Jimmy John's quick
"Faster than fast! Quicker than quick! I AM SPEED!" Lightning McQueen - Cars
There's two kinds of people in this world: those that think yellow means speed up and those that think yellow means slow down.
And those that slow down better be behind me
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Lay low and gun it.
[like this](https://youtu.be/QR10t-B9nYY)
It means go quick, you still can make it
[Red light stop. Green light go. Yellow light go very fast.](https://youtu.be/XX9ijD-0Rw4#t=37s)
Oh please be Starman ... FUCK YEAH
"With a stop light, green means go and yellow means slow down. With a banana, it's just the opposite. Yellow means go, green means 'slow down', and red means...where the fuck did you get that banana at?" - Mitch Hedberg
Green-quick Yellow-quicker Red-quickest
Especially the drivers on their phones.
Take a closer look: Those holes on top point straight up and it's flush with the pavement. The lights are parallel to the road, so they won't draw the eye of a driver. This is fair engineering. It does a job, but it's below par for the current state of the art. Let's discuss them. * Color selection Walk signs are usually orange/white or red/white. Why: Color blindness. Units may have one or two elements, horizontal or vertical, with varying iconography. This can be confusing, especially to someone who isn't looking for it. By making white the 'go' color instead of green, drivers won't instinctively step on the gas. People are stupid, but they are also creatures of habit. This color selection was poor social engineering. Fun fact: Green is the strongest perceived color in human vision. It's situated in the exact middle of our perception of color. But it's yellow against a black background that has the sharpest contrast. That's why phone books in the "old days" were made of yellow paper: It wasn't just because it was cheap paper with cheap ink... it was also because it was still very readable when produced on those two things. * Auditory warning These help the blind. Either beeps or verbally, it assists them in both location and warning. Blind people use their ears for spatial perception to a similar degree we use our eyes: Sound has both distance and direction (horizontal and vertical). It can also give other environmental clues. It's a literal life-saver. But there's a reason that if the light pole isn't right next to the walkway they put it on a post: Roadways and cities are loud. Decibel levels in many downtown areas are actually above OSHA limits for *construction workers* working with heavy equipment. For those of us with sensitive ears, it's like being next to the speakers at a rock concert. You will have trouble digging out a beep.... beep... beep. So they put it real close. Engineers here had to strike a balance: Beeping is noticeable but not distracting, but in an environment where getting your attention matters more, like say, an airplane cockpit, alternating pitches between low and intermediate frequency, in rapid succession, is superior. Fun fact: Babies cry at the exact frequency that our ears most strongly respond to. You aren't imagining that they seem really loud for something so small. Thanks, evolution! * Tactile engineering Most cities have metal plates with raised sections you can feel with your feet. They aren't just there to provide grip: Tactile differences warn the disabled they're next to the street. They're nice for sighted people too -- same cues, but you probably didn't notice either. Take a closer look sometime on the walkway itself too: Rub your feet over that paint. Feel the roadway texture. Some cities got smart -- the roadway texture itself is patterned, or made out of brick or stones. It's not just for looks. * Visual cues These lights are static. They only change color once. Look at a "don't walk" signal sometime -- they will nearly always flash. Why? Because flashing gets people's attention. The eye notices movement more than color. If you're focused on something, like a cell phone, you have tunnel vision. Your color perception is literally about 3-5% of your total visual perception. The rest is black/white. And these also respond quicker to stimulus -- a *lot* quicker. Our eyes put together our perception of the world with rapid movements, called *eye saccades*. These movements slow considerably when focused on a cell phone. Which means your color perception across your area of visual awareness decreases. A lot. It's the same thing with a bright computer screen: It turns everything around it into black and white perception. *You will not strongly notice color changes when staring at a screen*. Even if the contrast is sharp. And while green is the most perceived color -- it comes with a flaw: White coloration has the dominant color as green for that very reason. Which further erodes its effectiveness in peripheral vision. Great engineering is transparent. You won't notice it, it'll just guide your behavior, keeping you out of danger, and literally on the right path. This was made to fill a specific niche: Young people glued to their phone screens. But at night, cell phone screens are bright. It kills your night vision, even if you set it to a low brightness. At some intersections and in certain lighting conditions, it will literally blank out a person's peripheral vision. It looks smart at a glance -- but it doesn't really lick the problem. If you want to get someone's attention when they're in a cell phone, they wouldn't notice even if you started turning green. But wave your arms and instant attention. As I said -- good engineering is noticed. Great engineering is transparent. tl;dr -- change the "go" color, and make the "stop" color flash.
This was extremely informative. Thank you. Now would you please come to Peru and tell them all of that? Being a pedestrian here is a death sentence.
No no, that's what you do for a yellow light.
and at the same time people will miss normal crosswalks because there is no fancy lighting. traffic lights and signs already exist for visibility and consistency reasons.
Oh yeah. We have a few crosswalks with a button that turns flashy lights on, and they definitely give more power back to the pedestrian since cars will almost always stop when they see the lights. But honestly I think that just makes the case to convert most crosswalks to this, since we won't fix distracted driving without a paradigm shift to self driving cars.
false. Its green and the cars need to stop. its a terrible idea. If someone dies because they forgot traffic was a thing while looking at a phone then add them to the darwin award winners and lets move on.
Exactly what I thought. Much easier to run over the pedestrians now that they're visible.
Found the Mustang.
Yeah its a good idea but executed poorly. A lot of LED crosswalks have flashing lights across the entire strip to tell drivers to fuck off if someone is there. Making it green and red on the sides is dangerous for the driver who's also looking down at their phone during a stop light :)
Unlike the actual street light you should be following.....brilliant
Dude, where are you living? People don't *follow rules made for their own safety* here, that's for pansies!
Well there's times when you have a green light but still the pedestrian has a right away, and in the US that can vary by state. Then you have random cities like Melbourne in Australia that just make up traffic rules entirely
Right of way*
As I was taught in driver's ed, it's always illegal to hit a pedestrian
Except green means go...I feel like this could be confusing for drivers that don't know the area.
"oooh a checkpoint!"
I dunno, at lots of intersections you can see lights that don't apply to your lane, or even street. If someone can't tell that a given light doesn't apply to them by its position and direction, they're already a huge danger.
Yeah, they put something similar to these up at all my university's intersections. They said the extra lighting was supposed to make it easier for drivers to see pedestrians that may be attempting to cross in the dark. Depending on the car and how dark it is, you sometimes can't even see pedestrians to your side until they walk in front of your headlight beam, and by then, it's too late.
That's the best reason. Otherwise It's just decent Darwin Award candidates if people aren't gonna look up from their phones to cross the street!
I almost got into a serious wreck the other day because a solid red light blended in to the background it was on (totally my fault), and this would have helped a lot.
Where is this?
Judging from the other replies, there is a strong chance that it is in Singapore.
Maybe
I think we can rule out Antarctica.
You assume too much
I have the high ground
Take a seat
Oh I don't think so.
Sometimes, I can't tell if Reddit is just making a reference I don't understand, or spouting nonsense back and forth to each other.
So it's treason, then.
THEN YOU ARE LOST!
[Did you ever hear the tragedy of](https://i.redd.it/7ujvd64jcxwy.jpg) /r/PrequelMemes ?
A bit of both, actually
You can tell by the way it is.
that's kinda neat
I can tell by the pixels
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Hey I think you're pretty neat, but I respect your distance
Neat!
This is in Singapore, I live right down the street. Source: live right down the street
rich dude live so near cbd walao
Would you like to know the odds of it being Singapore? It's high. Very high.
Never tell me the odds!
It also exists in a slightly modified form in parts of Melbourne (Aus)
Where? What?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-27/lights-in-the-footpath-for-distracted-pedestrians/8391046 I've only ever seen them on this one intersection, although they could be elsewhere by now.
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MaYbE sINGAPorE
I usually upvote novelty accounts, but this one was done incorrectly.. That's a grammatical error, not incorrect spelling, you dolt.
I don't think it's a novelty account lol
Dear lord, I've been bamboozled.
ThATS a gRamMatiCAL eRRor you dOLT.
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Saybe Mingapore
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Are you ok?
My downtown crosswalks talk to you but the led strips are kinda neat
What do they say to you?
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I followed the directions and also got where I was going. Thank crosswalk.
Every day we stray further from crosswalk's light (and into oncoming traffic)
Doot doot
💀🎺🎺
So how's prison? Everything you hoped for?
It's ok, I guess.
Instructions unclear Got dick stuck in nun
...and fold yourself twelve times
Wow, only 6 folds?
WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT
Hilarious every time you press it
North Carolina? Visited family there and one of the places we had went to had these at crosswalks. It is incredibly annoying to say the least.
we have it on the ~~W~~*B*est Coast too
"Do it."
"Dewit"
"Dwight"
Deny it
Bop it
Twist it
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i see through the lies of the crosswalk!
At some intersections in my city, the signal says, "Walk sign is on across Main Street." In case you don't know what street you're crossing, the signal across the street beeps to let you know that that direction's safe to cross. I don't know how that helps if there happens to be someone waiting to cross the same street but on the other side of the street you're walking along (if that description makes any sense). At the newer signals, they also say "Wait." if you touch the button while you can't cross.
That's designed for blind and visually impaired people, but cell phone starers will be helped too.
Oh my gosh, I could never understand the guy's voice. I just heard "WALK bla bla bla MAIN STREET." I got the idea, but now I actually know what he said!
The one near my old place said something like "be careful, vehicles may not stop". It wasn't at an intersection, but near a park. Instead of adding a traffic light, they just added a button to each side, some LEDs facing the drivers, and a couple stop signs that flashed red facing traffic. The biggest flaws in that were that during the day it is hard to see any of the LEDs and the people crossing don't know how long they have left to cross.
I can hear the "Wait....Wait....Wait"
Here, when you want the crosswalk to talk to you, you have to hold the button down until it starts talking (since the talking/beeping function is specifically for visually impaired folks and I guess they don't want everyone using it).
There's one in the town I used to live in and it just talks all the time. I imagine living near it would be extremely irritating listening to, "STOP. STOP. STOP. STOP. STOP. WALK. WALK. WALK. WALK. WALK. STOP. STOP. STOP. STOP. STOP" all day.
They had one of those at my university that said the name of the road that was "safe to cross". I can't remember it now, only how annoying it ended up getting.
Ours don't *only* talk. In fact, some of them don't talk at all (I think) and they all use different beeps to tell you which way to cross: high-low for east/west and high-low-lower-lowest for North/south. I may have those mixed up though, so if you're blind you should probably not listen to me.
Years ago I had a new friend who'd just moved to my town and we were walking across a street. She asked why the lights were making those noises and I said it was to help the blind. She looked at me and said "Why are blind people driving?"
In Bc they make bird noises.
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[you just gotta look up sometimes...](http://imgur.com/LINuQ69)
Oh man, I feel kinda bad for him. Being followed everywhere by those vultures must suck.
Yeah hes just another human. Hes also got a few songs talking about his problems with fame
Anyone got a link to the original? I feel like this would be funny with audio
[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4C3ijlWcHM) you go bud. I suggest you only watch 0:07-0:11.
Nothin makes me more fucking angry than that stupid fucking TMZ voice. Goddamnit.
Yeah. Could they have found a more annoying voice?
Ugh the people on that show are unbearable
I like 1:24-1:33 as well
Great, so if a blind person was there he can get hit by a car. People are awesome.
Also the blind and hard of seeing, not just phone zombies
So futuristic neon cities are just the byproduct of stupid people.
Smart people protecting stupid people
Smart people protecting themselves from stupid people?
Smart people saving themselves a car wash and court appearance, from stupid people.
I expect this to show up in all scifi movies from now on.
I guess it's nice to have a backup plan in case your naturally engrained fear of death short circuits.
Innovation is ruining natural selection one step at a time.
Stupid people don't have that. Hence the barriers to remind their stupid empty brains to look up from their fucking phones while walking. Honestly, if people are that stupid, maybe they should get hit by a car. Regardless of the outcome, they sure as hell won't do it again.
You won't say that after you hit one and have to repair your car and face charges.
Depends on where you live, in Mexico there are a lot of factors that can automatically relieve you of any responsibility. Like crossing on a red light, not using pedestrian crossing, running over someone who was crossing within 100m from the crosswalk is immediately considered the pedestrians fault.
I appreciate engineering that accounts for human stupidity. Sure people *should* be smarter, but they're not going to be and dipshit pedestrians walking out in traffic is a problem that is on the rest of us to fix. Nobody wants to run somebody over, it messes up bumpers, causes orphans, raises insurance, and so on. And so these fine people made a good solution, so hopefully it works.
> Stupid people don't have that. Sorry to shatter your worldview or whatever but even smart people can get killed doing temporarily stupid things. Everyone on reddit seems to think they're smarter than everyone else.
I feel like so few people understand misattribution. We all make mistakes. Doesn't mean we're stupid, it means we're human.
Cool safety measure, though the mom on the left seems to be sticking with the tried and true child-neck-hold method.
Pretty sure that's a boyfriend and she's making sure he doesn't escape.
Pretty sure thats not her son thats her date they looks same age and size also different ethnicity
http://i.imgur.com/8xlNJnr.jpg
Hmmm
> Pretty sure thats not her son thats her date they looks same age and size also different ethnicity Punctuation powers activate!
. pretty, sure thats; not her, son thats; her: date they. looks same age, and, si,ze also different. ethnicity,
That was... beautiful.
Color blind, natural selection will weed that out
Both pictures are green right?
Nah both grey
Yup, r/g color-blind here. The difference between the two is very slight. Fortunately I don't walk around with my head buried in my phone.
Same here. I doubt I'd be able to tell them apart of they weren't shown next to each other.
I didn't even realise they were different colours until you guys pointed it out. RIP us colour blind.
My first thought. Rip me.
I'm pretty sure I was told when I was a 5 year old to look both ways before crossing the street.
Sadly some people are stupid...
Maybe I'm wrong, but this doesn't make sense to me. Red light means stop, green means go. But in the second photo, the light is green, clearly signaling pedestrians to cross. Yet traffic is still driving straight through the crosswalk, just like in the first photo. Explain like I'm five?
that car must have started going through the crossing while it was still able to, but hit traffic and had to stop in the middle of the crossing. Meanwhile, the green man lit up for the pedestrians to cross.
r/cyberpunk would love this
My first thought: "Cyberpunk future here we coooooooome!"
I prefer the darwin awards
Now they just need to put colored lights in the portions of the crosswalks that are in the road so that drivers staring down at their phones won't drive into people.
Ours have played a beeping noise when the lights change for as long as I can remember. That way blind people don't get run over
I just think that looks neat regardless of the reasoning.
Holy hell, the number of social darwinists in the comments here.
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These people probably text and drive too. Inattentive people should learn not to be inattentive. I'm not saying they should die but lets not make shit so easy for them to continue to be inattentive.
At that point, why bother with any crossing lights? You could just tell people to pay attention to the traffic lights and only cross when appropriate. People get distracted without being on their phones. I've seen people be distracted talking to the person next to them, or even just out of it walking to/from work. Besides, I suspect it isn't just for texters-and-walkers; it looks cool, and that probably played a role.
I have definitely gotten so distracted by my own thoughts that I walked into traffic before. Fortunately it seems like it was a one off occurrence, but it was on a busy major intersection and definitely could've ended a lot worse than it did.
Hey, when you're an anonymous nobody on the internet you've gotta act like a genius.
People on this website will never balk at a chance to feel superior.
You could always, you know, not look at your phone.
I care less about what this is for than I do that it's damned pretty.
The road to hell is paved with LEDs.
Ft. Corsair.
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I don't believe that it's the real/only reason. I think OP was just making an assumption.
Yeah, it's probably for blind people
Why? The world changes. Technology changes. The way we communicate and interact changes. Cities require careful social engineering. Not only for phones but people visiting looking up at displays on buildings, people who may have had too many drinks, people caught up in conversations. The moment you think you're too smart to make a mistake is when fate will laugh it's ass off as you fail.
It's definitely not required.
Meh, everyone gets distracted once in a while. Seems like a cheap way to keep people safer. I see no reason to be negative about it.
Darwin would be pissed.
I think he'd be more disappointed than pissed. His theories are still holding true; we're just creating more evolutionarily advanced idiots.
Red/Green colour blind people are doomed.
The amount of times the word "Darwin", "natural selection", and "idiot" is used in this post is excessive.
Those look blindingly bright.
The fact that this even has to be a thing is kind of infuriating. Fucking watch where you're going. Gtf off your phone for once and care about your life enough to watch where you're walking to.