Distracted Walkers Pose Problems

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While distracted driving has commanded lots of attention (albeit not a commensurate amount of correction), another digital hazard — distracted walking — is on the rise, with sometimes disastrous consequences, Jane Brody reports on nytimes.com.

We’ve all seen it, and often felt it, as people looking down to text, tweet, read or play games on their smartphones crash into us, typically as we walk in a straight line and they don’t.

A study by Eric M. Lamberg and Lisa M. Muratori at Stony Brook University found that distracted walkers veer off course by as much as 61 percent while texting and walking.

For more: http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2015/12/07/its-not-just-drivers-being-driven-to-distraction/?smid=fb-nytwell&smtyp=cur&referer=https://t.co/RcgSMA2Eh4

Photo: Paul Rogers/nytimes.com