And surely many of you may ask what for? Well the answer is very simple and is that in this way many abuses are avoided todayTaking into account that many users go with their heads down looking at the smartphone, with headphones on and losing the "world of sight" a bit. In reality, this is not the first city to implement these lights on the ground to alert pedestrians who have a red light, there are traffic lights of this type in China, Germany and even in Spain, yes in our country.
The Spanish city that already has this type of lighting on the ground to alert users that they do not raise their heads to cross the streets is, Sant Cugat del Vallès in Barcelona, where the City Council has installed the first ground traffic light for pedestrians.
This type of traffic lights are embedded in the ground in the form of an LED strip or similar so that users do not cross without looking when they are browsing on their smartphones, something that, seen in a more rational way, makes us think that we should not be so aware of technology and more of our environment, but this is something that requires another type of debate in which we will not enter.
In any case, the councilor of the city of Bodegraven, Kees Oskam, already said that people are increasingly distracting with their mobile devices and when you can't stop them from looking at them You have to look for other ways to prevent possible accidents, in this case this is a very good measure for this and that is why it has been implemented in the streets where there is a greater risk of being hit.