Does society have a responsibilty to help prevent stupid people from getting killed ?
 

Germany may think so

German city puts traffic lights on the ground -- for you phone gazers



http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/27/europe...ebar_expansion


Sometimes you just gotta shake your head ruefully.

I guess you've got to try and keep the younger generation alive somehow, if you're going to not rely on immigration to counteract the aging population problem. :hmmm:

Natural selection. Nature tries so hard to do her part. But we keep on interfering:nope:.

In this case I would say no. It would enable victims to sue if they were injured at another location without the system.

Out here we have some cross walks, which are not at traffic light controlled intersections, with a signal system that the pedestrian can activate to alert and stop traffic so they can cross safely. Good idea until a pedestrian decides not to use the signal after traffic has gotten trained to expect it.

:dead:

Let natural selection have its ways. Thats what genes are there for.

To the detriment of our entire species...

Ugh.
We used to invest so cool stuff...:shifty:

Natural selection doesn't work so well for a warrior culture. We need some deadly activities for politicians and lawyers to participate in so as to keep their future numbers down. I think that's our problem right now, too many valiant guys have died without heirs, and too many scum buckets breeding in their place. It's why there are so many ready to vote for practically a communist in the USA. :har:

Like those ground traffic lights would help, people are so focused on their 5'' screen that they won't even notice even if the light flashed constantly. They still walk on and get run over a by a car or train as they're that blind and deaf to their surrounding that nothing will help.

I rather see that money spend on cameras placed on those cross overs so whenever one of those stupid idiots walk through red because he's too busy worrying about the latest twitter feed and gets hit by a car the stupid idiot if he's lucky to even have survived gets charged with the damages inflicted onto the car or in case of a train the therapy costs for the driver who went through such horrible experience! :stare:

I see so much young girls on their bicycles, one hand at the handlebar and one holding a smartphone, looking at that instead on the road.. sometimes freehand and both hands on the phone.. i am really astonished there are not more accidents.
You also see it on the motorways, people driving at a hundred miles while texting.. It is forbidden, but no one cares. :-?

I'd have thought this was a good idea....visual and audible warnings should help keep injury/fatality rates down and at the very least lay the burdon of any incident on the individual concerned.

Yes, but then you don't get the opportunity to do the whole "Ugh, young people these days" thing, Jim.
Come on man, get with the program! :O:

Twenty years ago perhaps but now I'm just an oldie :)

Exactly, you're supposed to be all "Young people these days" and "Back in my day kids had more respect!", not to mention that every doctor, fireman and police officer now looks like a kid just out of school.
It's tradition, Jim!

Yeah, something like that :yep: