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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Using smartphones while walking

Have you guys already decided the article which related to “Human relationships” theme?  
I found the one but at the same time, I found another interesting article. (I think this article is related to “Human relationships” too,)So, today i’d like to write about that article.

The article is about using a smartphone when walking, and arguing how danger is that. 
Also the article included a simulation movie that “What would be like if everyone who walk across Shibuya scramble crossing uses smartphones?”
I think most of you have a smartphone, and I have one too. 
Smartphones are very convenient and easy to access a lot of information, But because of that advantages, people tend to use smartphones even while they are walking.
Some of you may have been seen that, the cellphone company and even the railway company’s warning that “Using smartphones while walking is very dangerous.”
If you use smartphones while walking, it will limit your range of vision one twentieth compared to normal range of vision. So that means you are more likely to stumble on something or collide with someone else.
In fact, cellphone company Docomo states that one in five people were involved in some kind of accidents because of using smartphone while they were walking.
Finally, the result of the movie that I mentioned at first turned out to be like this, “Among 1500 people, 446 accidents were happened and only 547 pedestrians crossed without any trouble.”

And I thought it will be terrible if this simulation were conducted on train station platform...  Also I thought that we should use smartphones in proper places and proper times.