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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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[-] tauren@lemm.ee 69 points 1 month ago

Normally when you need to wait at a crossing because it’s red you take out your phone to waste some time.

Is that considered normal these days? Jesus.

[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 18 points 1 month ago

I don't know where you live, but here in Seoul nobody takes out their phone out at the traffic light because most of the people have it already in the hand while walking.

See this random video I just googled of a crosswalk in Gangnam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeadHl7ugmk

[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 7 points 1 month ago

It seems it's not just in Asia, random London video shows also half of the people walking with phone in the hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTxyohQ8jN0&t=11

( Other commenter commented thesame about Tokyo.l

[-] shifty@leminal.space 3 points 1 month ago

Yup, everybody looking down at their pocket computers and fucking up their posture.

[-] XaetaCore@lemmy.xaetacore.net 5 points 1 month ago

If you hold your phone in front of you you get bonus arm training

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

And impact protection.

[-] Woht24@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that's a problem.

[-] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Are you just raw dogging walking in public no phone nothing??

[-] XaetaCore@lemmy.xaetacore.net 3 points 1 month ago

Usually just music, does that count?

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It's in my pocket, but I don't trust cars. Been hit too many times for that. It's only happened once while being a pedestrian, but that was enough for me, thanks.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Sometimes you may have to wait for thirty or forty seconds. You could literally die several times!

[-] XaetaCore@lemmy.xaetacore.net 2 points 1 month ago

Exactly my thought, Cant people be without their phones for one second 😅

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