{"id":13991,"date":"2016-04-26T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=13991"},"modified":"2016-04-25T23:02:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T03:02:45","slug":"to-prevent-people-from-texting-and-walking-into-oncoming-trains-germany-is-considering-street-level-pedestrian-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/to-prevent-people-from-texting-and-walking-into-oncoming-trains-germany-is-considering-street-level-pedestrian-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"To Prevent People From Texting And Walking Into Oncoming Trains Germany Is Considering Street Level Pedestrian Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/042616_0259_ToPreventPe1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"369\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the future mobile phones could subtly change city infrastructure, wrote John Metcalfe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pedestrians who text and walk at the same time have a tendency to get hit by cars or run over by trains.<\/li>\n<li>One German city is embedding pedestrian lights into the roads around a train station. The hope is that texters while looking down at their phones will also see the red lights that indicate an oncoming locomotive.<\/li>\n<li>Critics of the idea say that you cannot &#8220;protect against\u2026idiots&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/tech\/2016\/04\/germany-experiments-with-traffic-lights-for-oblivious-smartphone-users\/479445\/?utm_source=SFFB\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/tech\/2016\/04\/germany-experiments-with-traffic-lights-for-oblivious-smartphone-users\/479445\/?utm_source=SFFB\">City Lab<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the future mobile phones could subtly change city infrastructure, wrote John Metcalfe: Pedestrians who text and walk at the same time have a tendency to get hit by cars or run over by trains. One German city is embedding pedestrian lights into the roads around a train station. The hope is that texters while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/042616_0259_ToPreventPe1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13993,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13991\/revisions\/13993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}