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Don't you have indicators? In Spain the buttons (which BTW are increasingly uncommon, cars lost the battle) have two large indicators, lit depending on the stat
by kaoD 3y ago
Don't you have indicators? In Spain the buttons (which BTW are increasingly uncommon, cars lost the battle) have two large indicators, lit depending on the state:
- Please press
- Wait for green
- lll-o-lll 3y agoNo, no indicators. Just a great big shiny button to press (or not press if you are my wife).
- pixelesque 3y agoNo indicators on the unit itself, but the opposite side normally only has the red man light illuminated if you've pressed it doesn't it, and no light at all if it needs to be pressed and hasn't? At least that's the way it is here in NZ, and when I've been in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane I haven't obviously noticed a general difference to here in NZ (there are particular crossings that are sometimes a bit different, i.e. you never need to press, but)...
- lll-o-lll 3y agoIn NSW, the red man is always there. No indication that the button press did anything at all. Feedback would obviously solve (or at least alleviate) the problem I mentioned. It would, however, be much less amusing.
- askvictor 3y agoThat big button, incidentally, is quite a nice piece of industrial engineering. It uses a hall effect sensor and magnets to maximise the lifetime of the button.
- _kb 3y agoFor those not from AU, the PB/5 [0] is an icon of design history. [0]: https://theconversation.com/sublime-design-the-pb-5-pedestrian-button-26232 https://theconversation.com/sublime-design-the-pb-5-pedestri...
- Ekaros 3y agoIn Finland there is just a light above button in the box. It will light up when it is activated. Or actually when cycle is activated so also for other side. Decent enough UI for non blind, with blind I think there is sound in some cases.
- fian 3y agoSome pedestrian crossing buttons play different audible beats so blind people know when they can cross. Famously the beat of one in Sydney was sampled for a Billie Eilish song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-zeJRjP6xA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-zeJRjP6xA skip to around 4:00 mins). However others have no indicator or sound. To make things even more confusing is the pedestrian crossings can also be programmed to happen automatically at peak times with no button press, but absolutely need a button press outside of peak hour.