erman city installs traffic lights on pavements to alert distracted phone users<br /><br /><br />Authorities in the German city of Augsburg have installed additional flashing lights in the pavement at a busy tram crossing mostly used by students, in a bid to improve road safety.<br />The lights are meant to attract the attention of young road users, nowadays often distracted by their smartphones.<br />Tobias Harms, of the cityís public works department, said research had shown that ìthe regular traffic light does not catch the attention of pedestrians fully any moreî.<br />Smartphone users who walk along streets staring at their small screens have been dubbed ìsmombiesî, a combination of the words smartphone and zombie.<br /><br />------------------------------------------<br /><br />Subscribe to our channel: http://read.ht/fLZ<br /><br />Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/htTweets<br /><br />Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hindustantimes<br /><br />Watch more videos at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/video<br /><br />hindustantimes.com © 2015
