I Have Never Heard Of The Term,

“phubbers” 

until now, it is used to describe people who walk while staring at their smartphones and ignore everything around them, well authorities in the Chinese city of Xi’an recently inaugurated a special sidewalk lane designed for “phubbers” painted red, green and blue and featuring pictures of smartphones, the special lane is located on the busy Yanta Roan, in Xi’an, and is 80cm wide and 100m long, Chinese media reports that a large shopping mall overlooking the smartphone-user lane had been asking authorities for it over a month, which suggests that it’s just a marketing scheme, however, it turns out that the special sidewalk lane is actually a safety precaution for “phubbers”, 

cars often come onto the pavement in front of the mall, sometimes barely missing pedestrians who have their eyeballs virtually glued to their smartphones, so the lane is supposed to keep them out of harm’s way, “Everybody walking along here thinks that it’s very safe; at the side of the road, there are cars, and the vehicles also come onto here, and sometimes only just avoid you,” one person told The Paper, “Young people’s lives nowadays are fast, and they’re always looking at their phones. This puts our minds at rest – those of us who are often looking at our phones – as it’s a form of protection,” another local commented,

but there are some phone users you just can not protect, as this video above shows.