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.
You don’t even need to pay special attention, peripheral vision and the changing sound of cars is more than enough of a hint that the light might have changed.
There are a whole lot more threats than cars at crossings that you might like to be aware of.
(And before people straw man this, it’s an example selected for comedy potential, not a comprehensive list of all possible environmental hazards you might want to keep aware of.)
there are risks associated with phones, yes? increased likelihood of becoming a meal is one of them
Yes, that’s where peripheral vision comes into play.
Yes, let’s just ignore almost a century of research on perception and go with that, shall we?