The bumpy yellow tiles at crossings

Pavement slabs covered in domes or bars, usually in bright yellow.

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Feature. They guide people who cannot see the kerb.

Tactile paving was developed in 1965 by Seiichi Miyake in Japan and first introduced in a street in Okayama in 1967. The pattern tells you through your feet, or a cane, where to cross or where a platform edge is.

Source: Tactile paving, Wikipedia.

Grey tactile paving with domes and bars on a pavement in China
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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