@Somerandomguy524
How the hell does a driver not stop at a pedestrian crossing? if you hit a pedestrian in a crossing here you will automatically be considered at fault.
@samuelsoliday4381
I actually had a conversation about traffic with my mom and dad before. "First rule of the road. You do not trust others to follow the rules of the road. Second rule of the road. You DO NOT TRUST OTHERS TO FOLLOW THE RULES OF THE ROAD!!!"
@aBullet4uZombie
My favorite part about living in the United States is that you have to literally RUN across every Street if you want to feel safe. I often look left, right, left, right again, start crosssing, and before i make it halfway a car has turned a corner and accellerated to 45 mph directly at me with no intention of stopping. I think a lot of people don't realize how damaging it is to your mental health to constantly be in fear of a car flying off of the road and hitting you on a sidewalk where you're supposed to feel "safe"
@Rabijeel
As my Mom taught me when I pointed out she'd been in the Right and would not have to Stop at that Crossroad: "There is nothing gained when "I was in the right!" is chiseled in your Tombstone. The World is full of Idiots."
@SilentVinyl
The roadrage that some drivers have is insane
@Sunflowrrunner
I'm a long distance runner, and I can not tell you how many times I've almost been hit going through intersections, usually with stop sign. Doesn't matter if I'm in fluorescent colors, have reflective strips on my pack, a headlight when it's dark. Wide intersections are by far the worst. Allowing right-on-red is also a huge pedestrian hazard because people don't look, and they're coming up behind me.
@gytan2221
In the UK, you are free to jaywalk, it’s not against the law. This shows that pedestrians are the priority before cars
@harutakami1313
and then there's towns like mine that removed a pedestrian bridge next to a school because they didn't want to deal with the maintenance costs.
@themisterchristie
We also have to look at the attitudes of people and society in general. Long work hours, busy lives, and only so many hours in a day, we end up with people rushing around, leading to poor choices. That includes car drivers, cyclists, pedestrians, etc. When you live in a society where everything has to be done quickly because there is more to do, problems happen. This is partially made worse by changes to cost of living without an appropriate change to wages leading to people working extra jobs to make ends meet and that also leads to increased rushing and poorer concentration, including the possibility of falling asleep on the subway or at the wheel.
@Italian_Isaac_Clarke
North Americas' roads being a hellhole on Earth aside, a slow meat bag can turn and stop faster then a steel and aluminium monster.
@gircakes2
Distracted drivers are hard to design around. I got "hit" by a car in a college parking lot because the guy didn't look before trying to turn into the next row of parking spaces. Thankfully, I was able to lift my legs off the ground and grab his hood with both hands. Otherwise, he might have run over my feet. I only went because he was stopped, and I figured he'd look both ways before trying to pull out in a busy lot. Now, my faith in drivers has been lowered even further accordingly. That lot was a nightmare because many people refused to just park further away from the building and walk a little. They'd rather circle the closest spaces like sharks, hoping to get a spot. It was never due to a shortage of spaces.
@JasonWood100
Also a density problem here in the us. The fact that in many cities and towns you can't reasonable walk to everywhere you need to go on a regular basis forces expensive car ownership on people who would prefer to not spend their hard earned money on a depreciating asset.
@Malte_OJ
The part about parking at bars really made me think. Even cities with good public transport in Europe (or even Tokyo) often don't have 24/7 public transport, especially on weekdays. I don't expect the metro to run 24/7, but a basic night bus network would be nice.
@strikerdoc_4205
I had a exact situation to your friend who got hit. I was wearing bright clothes in the middle of the day, got hit by an old distracted driver and they blamed me for “not being visible enough. I was 14 at the time and lucky didn’t have any broken bones. Insurance found her at fault because where I was crossing was a “unmarked crosswalk” which I was confused about why not make it a marked walkway. But anyway people really have been taught that because they can drive a 3ton vehicle all others who can’t or don’t just have to exist around them and not get in there way.
@victorravn3075
been living in japan for a bit over a year now on the outskirts of Tokyo. While a lot of Tokyo metro area is decently walkable, Japan definitely has its fair share of car dependency. Huge stroads and endless traffic in all directions of where i live. But ironically, once you get downtown ( Shibuya, Shinjuku, Tokyo etc. ), the traffic clears up despite being much more densely populated. This is of course due to public transit being amazing and everything being closer together.
@bleebu5448
I was in FL at a hotel, there was a restaurant down the street, about 2 blocks, same side of the road. I could not walk there. There was no sidewalk, no easement, the street just dropped into a ditch that was filled with water (and probably gators). What a mess. I'm talking to you Panama City.
@justseffstuff3308
2:58 "Trying to rely on personal choices and individual responsibility" kinda sums up American politics. If anything goes wrong, no matter what, it's blamed on the person, not the system. They pretend like the system is just a fact of life we all have to deal with and trying to legislate it would be like trying to legislate a hurricane- when in fact, changing the system is LITERALLY the politician's JOB.
@jeromebout5924
Maybe already mentioned, but apparently “jay driver” existed before “jay walker” to refer to horse carriage drivers driving on the wrong side of the road. The automobile industry changed it to “walker” to switch the responsibility as you said 👍
@jesseerven4859
last week I was cross at a cross walk and some dude honked at me for crossing and i pointed to the sign that says STOP FOR PEDESTRAINS and the road lines and this dude just wasn't having it so I told him to stop being a baby and he stepped out the car and now I have assault charges D:
@NameePark