– 09/15/14, 12:22
China, the country with the most mobile phones in the world, take action against the nuisance caused by smartphone users in traffic. The metropolis of Chongqing is the first city in China a special walkway built for people who want to look and run. Simultaneously on their mobile phone
The markings on the pavement separating pedestrians along two paths: one for smartphone users, the other for people without mobile phones. The smartphone sidewalk on a busy and tourist spot in the city, is 3 meters wide and 50 meters long. The trail is marked with a warning: Mobile phone users, use this path at your own risk. This reports the China Daily newspaper.
There pedestrian accidents happen frequently because they are busy with their mobile phone. So was there last year in Taiwan, a woman of a pier off because she was Facebooking. This solution would, in any case non-smartphone users should be against their fellow unwary pedestrians protected.
Experiment
In the American city of Washington DC this summer ran a similar experiment by the National Geographic TV channel. The station received permission from the municipality for the construction of a smartphone-trail for a series on behavior of crowds Mind Over Masses.
showed the sidewalk otherwise not be significant impacts; people with smartphones saw the indications do and people who saw it, took just their smartphone appeared to take a picture. novelty of Only a small minority applied their route after seeing the signs, wrote Yahoo news.
In China, the mixed reactions. One calls it against China Daily an improvement for the city, the other thinks that this behavior of smartphone users is encouraged.
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