地上交通灯？得了吧，还是不要低头看手机，抬头看看吧

Traffic lights in the ground? Come on, just look up from your smartphone

The city of Sydney, Australia, is planning to trial traffic lights down on the pavements to stop twerps glued to their smartphones from striding blindly into traffic and injuring or killing themselves.、

澳大利亚悉尼市计划尝试在道路上安置交通灯，以此来阻止那些沉迷于自己手机的家伙盲目走路而造成交通事故，伤害自己甚至死亡。

Why pander to these creatures? Why save them from their silly selves and encourage them to glare downwards? How will they ever learn to look where they’re going?

为什么要迎合这些沉迷手机的家伙呢?为什么要救这些愚蠢的人，还鼓励他们往下看呢?他们怎么才能学会看自己前进的方向呢?

And it’s not just happening on the other side of the world. The small city of Augsburg, Germany, has already installed “in-ground traffic light technology” to stop fools in headphones and on mobiles, deaf and blind to the rest of us, from wandering. Let’s not bother with it here. We have a cheaper method: Fielding and Mavis just stand still when they see a distracted fool coming their way, and they await the crash (as long as the person isn’t too big). It’s fair enough if you’re walking along, but it’s much more dicey if you’re in a car.

这在世界的另一端早就存在了。德国的小城市奥格斯堡已经采用了“地面内置交通灯技术”来阻止那些沉迷手机的傻瓜、聋哑人和盲人瞎逛。我们在这里就不斤斤计较了。我们有一种更廉价的办法：当菲尔丁和马维斯看到一个注意力不集中的傻瓜向他们走过来的时候，他们仅仅站在那里不动，他们等待交通事故的发生(只要这个人不是非常胖)。如果你是步行，那感情好，但是如果你在汽车上，那肯定就更危险了。

While driving along obediently at the mandatory 20mph, I often come to a zebra crossing with a kamikaze smartphone user barging carelessly on to it, giving me 0 seconds to stop. So I jam on the brakes, it’s whiplash for human passengers and trauma for the dogs, but worse still, Daughter and Olga (fairly obsessive smartphone user and cyclist respectively) always reprimand me. So, can I remind them – and anyone else who fancies an argument – that I am not a doddering, ancient driver adhering to some quaint old rules of etiquette?

当我严格按照每小时20英里的速度开车的时候，经常遇到拿着神风手机稀里糊涂过斑马线的人，我完全没有时间停车。因此我只能急刹车，这是对人类乘客的鞭打以及对小狗的上海，但是更严重的是，女儿和奥尔加(分别是对手机相当沉迷的人和自行车手)经常谴责我。那么，我能提醒他们吗——以及那些喜欢争论的人——我实际上并不是老态龙钟、墨守陈规的司机。