this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2025
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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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[–] viking@infosec.pub 7 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I don't get why people need to look at their phone for 12 seconds, but hey.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 hours ago

It's a self-correcting problem: people who look at their phones instead of looking at the red light end up looking at daisies from underneath.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net -2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Where do you live that your red light is 12 seconds?

[–] Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

In Europe, most red light are at most 1 minute or 2. In very big cities it might be a bit longer, but still...

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net -4 points 9 hours ago

2min = 60 sec * 2 = 120 sec

Looks like the viking was wrong one order of magnitude.

Sorry it just sounds very self righteous to fight a straw man and assume that everyone is in the same situation as you while waiting for the light.