Epidemic of inattention
Tel Aviv has installed so-called zombie lights at a downtown crosswalk to alert distracted pedestrians staring at their phones when they can walk and when they should stop. Similar systems are said to be in use in Australia, Singapore and the Netherlands. Traffic managers in the Israeli city say the lights aim to minimize accidents between vehicles and inattentive pedestrians at crosswalks. “We cannot force them to take their eyes out of the smartphone and into the road. We need to find ways to put the road into their eyes,” he said.
