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I like the traffic light indicators on the floor when I look at my phone (piefed.jeena.net)
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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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[-] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 16 points 23 hours ago

Finland had a solution for this long before smartphones even existed. Pedestrian traffic lights here play different tones depending on whether it’s red or green, allowing blind or visually impaired people to safely navigate the city.

[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 6 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, bringing more accessibility is very good even if it is quite annoying if you live nearby I guess.

[-] TDCN@feddit.dk 5 points 18 hours ago

In Scandinavia the boxes have microphones and listens to the ambient sound and lowered and raises its sound accordingly. Some even detect humans around it so if noone are around they turn barely audible. Really nice design.

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