Am i the only one that finds this terrifying as a pedestrian? All the people in the video had to stop when they arrived at the intersection and wait for a car to allow them to cross. If someone were crossing here unaware and started crossing immediately, this thing could hit them anywhere up to the face. And that is if it doesn’t have enough force to make one loose their balance or straight up catapult them.
I refuse to believe this thing is actually just active and without supervision. I think they just deployed this thing for an afternoon to get the shots and coached the pedestrians.
I find this anything but brilliant
Yeah obviously this is a film set. That’s what PSAs are, little government adverts. They didn’t deploy this on the street and they’re not suggesting this as a solution to a problem. It’s a fun little sort of advertisement that has been created to try and make a point.
The pedestrians also walk across the actual crosswalk area, over the mechanism, showing no concern that those magic stripes could come back down and smush them at any moment. There are a handful of things that take this out of the realm of realism but for me it was mainly that—especially the lady carrying her baby under them
Am i the only one that finds this terrifying as a pedestrian? All the people in the video had to stop when they arrived at the intersection and wait for a car to allow them to cross. If someone were crossing here unaware and started crossing immediately, this thing could hit them anywhere up to the face. And that is if it doesn’t have enough force to make one loose their balance or straight up catapult them. I refuse to believe this thing is actually just active and without supervision. I think they just deployed this thing for an afternoon to get the shots and coached the pedestrians. I find this anything but brilliant
Yeah obviously this is a film set. That’s what PSAs are, little government adverts. They didn’t deploy this on the street and they’re not suggesting this as a solution to a problem. It’s a fun little sort of advertisement that has been created to try and make a point.
It’s like the Swedish advert from the other day.
It’s a controlled film set…Every single face you see is a unionized actor, any “candid” feelings are purely manufactured for effect.
in Turkey, we pedestrians always yield to cars.
The pedestrians also walk across the actual crosswalk area, over the mechanism, showing no concern that those magic stripes could come back down and smush them at any moment. There are a handful of things that take this out of the realm of realism but for me it was mainly that—especially the lady carrying her baby under them