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From personal experience, I have had to dodge people outright walking into traffic to cross a road, ignoring all the cars and staring at their phones. This has s happened serval times in the last year for me. The worst offender was someone walking across a 10-lane highway (5 lanes each side with a grass divider) during rush hour traffic.
Same. Daily. WTAF is so important you have to stare at your phone in a crosswalk?
don't pedestrians have right of way on crosswalks??
Cemeteries are full of people who had the right of way. You still have to pay some basic attention to your surroundings.
I think what the experts are saying is that bigger cars are more deadly. Being distracted wasn't always a death sentence.
The simplest method to get away with murder is causing a car accident.
Yes, but I guess your family can argue that you had the right of way when a giant truck turns you into a hood ornament because you were watching Facebook shorts instead of looking both ways before crossing a street
I guess it's a different situation in Germany compares to the US
How? Please elaborate
Here you can pretty much cross the street on a crosswalk without looking because people are more careful.
According to the laws of man, yes.
According to the laws of physics? Nope.
Phones are an addiction. Every moment of your attention is demanded by social media.
In my cases, there was no crosswalk. Straight up reckless jaywalking.
You should be higher on the list. It's a complex problem with a lot of moving parts - while the emotional support truck designs certainly have a fault in accidents due to physics and blind spots, people not paying attention and crossing the road with the assumption traffic will stop for them, or the lack of awareness of traffic when crossing, has taken many lives as well.
We should control what we can - limit crossings to safer zones (crosswalks, dedicated traffic light crosswalks, crossing bridges, tunnels or underpass), require visibility rules for vehicle safety (reverse cameras, blind spot detectors, automatic emergency braking is what we have, we need driver visibility requirements better defined), separate vehicle and pedestrian traffic physically (barriers, natural and/or artificial), and teach driving and walking lessons to kids in school so they learn how to do these things, instead of letting the school of hard knocks teach them.