https://www.techradar.com/news/forget-cycle-lanes-one-city-in-china-now-has-mobile-walking-lanes

We've all been there. Walking along, checking our phones and accidentally bumping into someone else or unknowingly stepping into traffic. One city in China, however, is offering the smartphone addicted a solution.

Installed in the Chinese City of Xi'an, the lane itself is only 100 meters long and 80cm wide, but it allows smartphone users to walk in the knowledge that they won't be getting in other people's way, or being hit by a car.