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Here on autoevolution we've talked a lot about the feud between drivers and cyclists or drivers and motorcycle riders, but we haven't touched that much the similar rivalry between drivers and pedestrians. And, boy, is there plenty to talk about.
Pedestrians are the most ancient traffic participants, roaming the streets even before there were any vehicles to begin with. Hell, they were walking before streets were invented, so there's no argument there. That being said, you'd think that all these centuries of experience would make them the wisest of them all, but you'd be sorrowly mistaken.
As one of the most exposed category together with people on bikes with or without engines, the biggest concern pedestrians should have now that the horses have been replaced by metal tin boxes weighing several tons and going pretty fast, is to keep themselves safe. But they don't seem to do that. Instead, they are much inclined toward proving how bad the drivers are by letting themselves be hit on the crosswalk. Needless to say, that's not the best course of action for them.
The lawmakers realized the frailty of a human body compared to a moving vehicle, so they've decreed that pedestrians should be protected. There are sidewalks for them to walk on, and zebras to cross from one side to another, but what the authorities failed to realize is that the pedestrians don't like to play by the rules.
So instead of using the crossings, they'll go jaywalking, and when they don't get hit themselves, then there's every chance they'll cause a collision between two cars, one of which tried to avoid them. And even when they do use the crosswalk, they completely ignore the necessary etiquette.
They can a). charge in, demanding the drivers acknowledge their right, defy the laws of physics that say they can't possibly react in time and somehow manage to stop; b). stand on the side of the crosswalk even though they don't intend to use it; c). cross from behind a large, parked vehicle, as if all drivers had X-Ray vision; d). act like this clever dog here who does everything by the book. Everybody, just take notes.
As one of the most exposed category together with people on bikes with or without engines, the biggest concern pedestrians should have now that the horses have been replaced by metal tin boxes weighing several tons and going pretty fast, is to keep themselves safe. But they don't seem to do that. Instead, they are much inclined toward proving how bad the drivers are by letting themselves be hit on the crosswalk. Needless to say, that's not the best course of action for them.
The lawmakers realized the frailty of a human body compared to a moving vehicle, so they've decreed that pedestrians should be protected. There are sidewalks for them to walk on, and zebras to cross from one side to another, but what the authorities failed to realize is that the pedestrians don't like to play by the rules.
So instead of using the crossings, they'll go jaywalking, and when they don't get hit themselves, then there's every chance they'll cause a collision between two cars, one of which tried to avoid them. And even when they do use the crosswalk, they completely ignore the necessary etiquette.
They can a). charge in, demanding the drivers acknowledge their right, defy the laws of physics that say they can't possibly react in time and somehow manage to stop; b). stand on the side of the crosswalk even though they don't intend to use it; c). cross from behind a large, parked vehicle, as if all drivers had X-Ray vision; d). act like this clever dog here who does everything by the book. Everybody, just take notes.
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