过马路请小心！韩国设激光束警示装置提醒低头族_BEC初级作文

过马路请小心！韩国设激光束警示装置提醒低头族

随着智能手机的普及，马路“低头族”成为交通事故新型“杀手”。

为了让低头族们抬头看路，减少事故伤亡率，各国政府真是操碎了心。最近，韩国某市在路口安装了闪灯装置和激光束，提醒低头族们抬起头来。

A city in South Korea, which has the world’s highest smartphone penetration rate, has installed flickering lights and laser beams at a road crossing to warn “smartphone zombies” to look up and drivers to slow down, in the hope of preventing accidents.

日前，韩国某市在十字路口安装了闪灯装置和激光束，提醒“智能手机低头族”们抬头看路，并让驾驶人员减速，避免意外发生。韩国智能手机普及率全球最高。

laser beam：激光束

The designers of the system were prompted by growing worry that more pedestrians glued to their phones will become casualties in a country that already has some of the highest road fatality and injury rates among developed countries.

韩国的交通致死率和伤亡率在发达国家中处于居于高位。人们日益担心越来越多的行人因为低头看手机而在交通事故中受伤。设计人员据此设计了这套提醒装置。

State-run Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) believes its system of flickering lights at zebra crossings can warn both pedestrians and drivers.