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Carbrain making things up again.
If there weren't cars in the cities, the worst thing a person with a phone could cause is bumbing into someone else at non-lethal speed.
If there weren't cars, there'd still be buses, vans, trucks.
There's a big difference between a constant stream of cars with noise from every direction, and the occasional delivery vehicle that you can hear coming.
Which are driven by professional, experienced drivers who get fired for driving too fast. Not average morons pissed they have to wait a whole ten seconds for a pedestrian to cross the road.
It sounds like this post is about pedestrians not paying attention and walking into traffic, though. It doesn't matter if they're driving too fast, if someone's not paying attention and walks out in front of a bus....
I think you're making a different but equally valid argument.
People walk out in front of buses all the time. Know what happens? The bus stops. Because it's going at a reasonable speed and driven by a driver that's actually good at driving. The only time this isn't the case is when it's a long-distance bus going at highway speeds. It's really simple; replacing multiple vehicles driven by amateurs with one vehicle driven by a professional will save lives, regardles of what pedestrians are doing.
Yeah, on top of the car free fantasy, that may come to pass in a few decades, we may as well imagine that professional drivers will somehow stop driving terribly as well.
I don't think most peoples' dreams of a walkable utopia include those things, but you make a good point.
No, it does. The notion that urbanists want to get rid of delivery vehicles is a strawman argument used to attack us.
"If I had a dash cam, I could demonstrate the dozens of obviously distracted teens I've run down while recklessly driving through school zones. If these kids looked up every once in a while, they'd make it home for spring break."
I missed the "when they cross the road" part, and fully agreed for a minute. Too damn many drivers staring at their phones all the time
Young men especially. The number of knuckleheads driving 10-15 over the speed limit while texting is insane.
Yes, absolutely, pedestrians have the right of way. But, pedestrians also need situational awareness when they are in the same vicinity as cars and trucks. Right of Way doesn’t do anything if some asshat driver isn’t paying attention and clips the pedestrian and/or kills them.
Edit: I am absolutely not defending the guy in the tweet. Pedestrians aren’t menaces.
Yes, defensive driving (and I guess walking now) is a thing. Driver's Ed instructor said that you're just as dead in a fatal crash if you had the right of way as if you didn't.
All that said it is incumbent on the driver, not the walker, to be sure they're not hitting anyone.
I saw a comment the other day that was like "You can be right but you still get the wheelchair".
Also , if you want to murder someone, hit them with your car. Good odds you won't even be charged with a crime.
This is a dual issue that's been poorly worded which as we all know is typical of most social media users.
Far from the biggest menace, but there is one nit I have to pick that somewhat aligns with the OP.
Pedestrians who don't look up to notice that the cars aren't stopped because the light is red, but because the light is green and they don't want to block the box.
As a cyclist in the bike lane/cutting between stopped cars, these people are dangerous. Especially when you try to get their attention since they're about to walk into your path, and they suddenly realize they're in the middle of an active intersection and freak out and quickly move in a completely random direction. By all means, keep up with your sudoku while crossing the street, just make sure the light is on your side before you wander into traffic.
I also once saw a guy walk straight through a construction site and nearly bonk his head on a giant concrete pipe hanging from a crane overhead.
And yes, I think a safer city would have no stoplights and everyone would have to be aware of their surroundings and negotiate moving through traffic, but while we have stoplights, you kind of have to play along.
OP should just record it with their phone.
I dunno but I was taught to look both ways before I crossed the road both while walking and driving.
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