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Hildesheim (FRG) students Amelie and Sandro came up with this fun innovation – ping pong game of two people waiting on pedestrian crossing when the green light comes on. And posted this “joke” on the Internet. She was watched with pleasure by more than five million users.
But not only they, the city authorities of the city of Hildesheim drew attention to this and, with the help of inventive students, installed such a first traffic light at one of the intersections. And the townspeople not only liked him, they are literally crazy about it innovations.
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Firstly, as Janis Stenunbiak says, for example, it allows not just miss the transition, but it’s fun to spend time expectations, and even meet another person. This is confirmed by and other residents of the city who, thanks to the new traffic light, started somehow look differently at passers-by, be more sociable and sociable in his hometown.
Even the students who, as a rule, liked the new traffic light very critical of such innovations. The only thing they criticized, so this is that at the traffic light there are few games, one Ping-pong is clearly not enough, and there is not enough 3D graphics. Therefore in Currently, students Amelie and Sandro are working hard at improving your brainchild.
And they work not in vain, since their invention is already became interested not only in the capital of their home country, but also in other countries of the world, for example, in the USA, Norway, France. AND I think this is just the beginning. The fact is that a similar traffic light, like showed tests of the first weeks of its use, it also contributes to decrease in road accidents, since at the intersection where it was installed, not there was not a single transition (running across) to the red light, as that was earlier. Pedestrians stand, play ping pong or watch at the game, and in no hurry to get under the wheels of the car …
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