A Dutch town has introduced an unusual way of trying to keep smartphone-addicted residents safe: Installing traffic lights in the pavement.
Bodegraven, in the Netherlands, has put strip lights in the floor at a pedestrian crossing — meaning people who stare at their phones all day will see them, preventing them from wandering dangerously into traffic. ( We heard about the news via the BBC .)

Apart from their unusual location, they work just like ordinary traffic lights: Green means go, and red means wait.

HIG Traffic Systems : The lights are built by HIG Traffic Systems, a company based in the town, which hopes to sell them more widely to other towns and cities, The Guardian reports . Right now they're just being used at a single intersection in a trial.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/dutch-town-put-traffic-lights-173852614.html

Nice one for phone addicts.

Cool