Week 2 - Text-Walking Addiction

According to various research done by different researcher's it has found text-walking is more dangerous than distracted driving. According to test done by the University Of Queensland they confirmed people cant walk in a straight line while texting. And people are walking slower when texting than they are walking without texting. The University of Queensland also found that most of people who participate in research lost balance and focus of their surrounding while text-walking.

The research also found in New Zealand in year 2013 35 people were reported to ACC injured while text-walking.

Figure 1:Text Walking (travelwayfinding.com)

Figure 2: Sarah Jessica Parker texts on the move (telegraph.co.uk)

Now a days new rules are introducing to reduce accidents that occurs from text walking. In Belgian city, they introduce a new text walking lane for smart phone addicts. So the smartphone addicts wont disturb the other road users.

Figure 3: Text walking lane Belgian (digitaltrends.com)

In Germany they have introduce a new traffic lights on the ground level. so the text walkers don't have to look up. They will notice the traffic lights on the ground as they already looking at down. According to European survey they have found 20% of pedestrians are distracted by smarts phones that creates various dangerous situations to drivers and other pedestrians.