stop making driving lazier. i am sick of this shit. we wouldn't be seeing inventions like this if people would just hang up the fucking phone and pay attention

you get taken... TO THE ISLAND!

If this passes the Government will start monitoring your license plate or EZ Pass at each cross walk and mail you tickets when you pass through them too fast, or don't come to a complete stop.

Big Brother is Watching

@will: A-fucking-men!

Didnt they have this is Demolition Man??
man I feel like Taco Bell

if we keep this up society will start to mirror the movie Idiocracy

@will:
ok, maybe my first response was a bit simplistic. i am continually astounded, however, by the fact that americans have come to regard thought as an inconvenience (i'm supposing that this is a phenomenon exclusive to americans, but i don't really spend enough time out of the country to confirm this.) every new invention that gets reported on almost always has to do with making a task or experience less thought intensive. rarely does it have anything to do with making our lives more efficient, or more satisfying or otherwise measurably better, only with enabling us to go through the day using less of our brains. i'm beginning to wonder if the decline of physical work and increasingly cerebral nature of industry in the US is making people resent being forced to think if they're not being paid. of course, it could just be that we all watch too much tv... in any case, i would like to think in my free time and i'm continually frustrated by all these products that assume i would rather not. beyond just enabling idiocy, i think they're actually encouraging it.

?@will:

Wall is Virtual
The driver is lazier
Where is the virtue

@will: Hasty Generalization, party of one? Your table is ready, right this way please...

Maybe the walls will start zapping people, like the brig in Star Trek.

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With the inclusion of more nannies in our cars and the implementation of distraction-enabling technology like this; at what point do we stop driving cars and become passengers?

Soon that steering wheel and those pedals might just take care of this 'driving' thing for you, freeing you to do your hair, chat on your phone, or whatever.

Me? I'll be the guy doing the brake-stand in the loud old car with the mysterious third pedal.

I don't like it. If they allow this, how will ewan macgregor ever save liam neeson in time?

All-in-all your just a
-nother laser beam in the wall..

@Lieutenant LT БЯд╒╒ ®: The island of floating white styrofoam balls?

@13oostedwgn: Quality. Very high quality.

It seems pretty obvious that painted lines take no energy to perform their function. Laser barriers however, probably take plenty of energy to run.

Do we really need these things on our street corners if the cost is unnecessary energy usage from that point on just to run a heretofore-perfectly-fine crosswalk?

Just goes to prove that just because something can be done, that doesn't mean it should be done.

I think the horizontal beams act like a force field, then those 12 foot tall laser silhouette people jump out of the beams, drag you out of your car and beat you mercilessly.

@Lieutenant LT БЯд╒╒ ®: i'll focus on the broad generalizations if you'll keep up the snide but meaningless remarks.

on that note, why couldn't helen keller drive?

@will: because she is a women... WOCKA WOCKA!

"Snide meaningless remarks" was my minor in college...

@will: She grabbed her putter?

I think a wall of lasers could be a bit blinding for the "Cross Walkers"?

So how many points to hit the 'Virtual' crosswalkers

Or it could be a portal that sends you straight into the lake where the Bond DBS fell earlier :P

If you drive a TT, will it make it look all flat and distorted?

Portal idea's cool. Only, just to the other side of the crosswalk.

I want to see the look on the pedestrians' faces as I *accellerate* towards them and seemingly go right through them.

Can you imagine being the pedestrian? I think I'd shit myself.