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		</div><p>A city in Israel has taken a small step towards protecting the lives of “smartphone zombies”.</p>
<p>Special LED pavement lights have been installed at a busy crossing in Tel Aviv to alert distracted pedestrians staring at their phones to when they can walk and when they should stop.</p>
<p>Tomer Dror, head of the traffic management division in the area, said the “zombie traffic lights” aim to minimise accidents between vehicles and inattentive pedestrians at crossings.</p>
<p>“We cannot force them to take their eyes out of the smartphone and into the road. We need to find ways to put the road into their eyes,” he said.</p>
<p>The striped lights turn green when it is safe to walk and red when pedestrians should halt.</p>
<p>For now, the pilot programme is limited to a single intersection in central Tel Aviv, but the municipality said it will expand the zombie lights if they prove effective.</p>
<p>Similar systems have already been used in Australia, Singapore and the Netherlands.</p>
<p>So far, smartphone-addicted residents seem to be welcoming the lights.</p>
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<p>“In my opinion, it’s something amazing,” said Tel Aviv resident Shai Levi. “As someone who is addicted to his phone and is all day long with his head glued on the screen, I think that it can, without any hesitation, reduce the number of accidents.”</p>
<p>Haley Danino, another pedestrian, also called it a good idea that will save lives.</p>
<p>“But it’s a bit sad, no?” she said. “We all look down all the time.”</p>
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