Normally when you need to wait at a crossing because it’s red you take out your phone to waste some time. But you have to be quite anxious and look up if it’s already green or not, otherwise you miss the green light.
But they help you out with that here in Korea by building in the traffic light into the curb. You’re looking down on your phone and see the red line left and right of it. Once it changes to green you immediately are aware of it because it’s in your field of view constantly.
Great invention!
I took the background picture just outside and put the stock picture hands with a phone on top of it so you can easier visualize it how it looks like in reality.
In my city, some intersections you would wait maybe more than 5 minutes for the light to change if you’re not downtown. Then again, I wasn’t on my phone for this wait. Annoyingly, these pedestrian signals didn’t have any sound when they changed, where downtown did.
Downtown wasn’t so bad, though. You might still wait longer than a minute, but usually not.