A town in Germany has recently installed traffic lights in the pavement for those pedestrians too engrossed with their mobile phones to look up when walking down the street.
Many of us would be lost without them, but the world's obsession with smartphones appears to have dangerous consequences.
A town in Germany has installed traffic lights in the pavement for those pedestrians too engrossed with their mobile phones to look up when walking down the street.
The new initiative is said to come after a teenage girl in Augsburg was killed when she stepped in front of a tram while looking at her mobile phone.
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