Father of cellphone says people will learn not to stare at their phones while crossing the street 'after a few people get run over'
The"father of the cellphone" says he is"devastated" when he sees people staring at their phones while crossing the street.
"They are out of their minds," Martin Cooper, a former vice president of Motorola who invented the first cellphone in 1973,"After a few people get run over by cars, they'll figure it out," he joked. Cooper told AFP that we are still at the"mindless staring phase" with our phones. The issue, he said, is that people look at their phones too much.on how pedestrians use their phones found that 14.4% of pedestrians don't pay attention to traffic when crossing. Researchers involved in the study called the phenomenon an"emerging road safety issue."
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