Public Safety
around lunchtime on Friday, the 7th of March 2008 by Chad
People who have been injured while walking and texting on their cell phones may be in luck.
A study conducted by 118 118, a phone directory service, found that one in 10 people has been hurt while focusing on their cell phone instead of where they were walking, ITN reports.
The test lampposts will be given a trial run in London’s East End on Brick Lane. If the trial is successful it will be rolled out in Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool.
The survey found that almost two thirds of respondents lost peripheral vision while texting, and more than a quarter wanted lines on the pavement to create routes for texters to walk while using their phones.
The study claims that 68,000 people were injured in the U.K. last year while chatting or texting on their cell phone, Infomatics reports.
Now, I recommend giant spikes instead of padding on the poles. Within a few weeks I’m sure the problem will be solved.
What’s most pathetic for humanity is that a subset of people want lines on the pavement for them to blindly follow. All I can think of is all the Looney Tunes moments where the line was redrawn straight into a wall or off a cliff.
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March 8th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Plus, the use of giant spikes instead of cushions could well reduce other types of accidents just waiting to happen. Especially if the tips of those spikes carried some quick acting poison. No more would the inattentive walk infront fo car, bus or train. No more would they stumble off the curb or bump into other pedestrians.
Yep, in no time at all the gene pool would have been successfully divided into…well, the quick and the dead.