A German city embedded traffic lights in its sidewalks to protect distracted texters

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By Chris WellerApr 30, 2016, 5:23 pm144 pts
Texting in Augsburg, Germany just got a whole lot safer. Following a March accident in which a 15-year-old girl got hit by a train while looking at her phone, city officials decided recently to install traffic lights directly in the sidewalk. Now pedestrians won't have to look up to check for oncoming cars;…

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