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This is how pedestrians die on Chicago streets
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This is called "the wave of death".
When a road is two+ lanes, and the closer lane stops to wave a pedestrian through; the other lanes often cannot see that there's a pedestrian at all because the car is blocking the view. They just see a car stopped for no reason.
If you're a pedestrian, be extremely careful crossing the road in this highly specific scenario. My stomach dropped when I saw the person not watching where they're going. Obviously the car is in the wrong for assuming there are no pedestrians at a pedestrian crossing… but this is an extremely common mistake when driving.
If other car stop at crosswalk, assume person walking cross. How hard can it be? One of the first things I learned in driving school is "if ball, then child!" and this is the same.
Yes, easy solution if your brain is functioning at all.
A functioning brain should be a prerequisite for a drivers license.
The problem is that, while you are correct, in case of the driver's mistakes is the pedestrian that pays the steepest price.
So while we can acknowledge that some drivers are indeed braindead, it's important for pedestrians to use the brain for both of them
It’s not hard. But everybody makes mistakes which is why roads are so dangerous.
Being in the right morally won’t save your life when crossing the street. You still have to look both ways and wait to check that drivers see you.
A car stopping for no reason at a crosswalk? Guess I should drive by fast
Get out of the danger zone quickly
Wave of death is one of the most aggravating things to me when I'm on a bike. Motorists violating their own right of way to wave me through think they're being courteous, but really they're peer pressuring me into a potentially lethal mistake. Sometimes you really have to fight with them visually, hands gesticulating that they have to go first, to get them to understand that you refuse to take their "courtesy".
yeah, I had a guy losing his mind once trying to wave me through a construction zone with an active bulldozer going because you know, he stopped for me, and I'm like pointing at the bulldozer and shaking my head at him. guy was really mad I wasn't getting crushed under a machine with no visability actively doing work that involved not looking for pedestrians behind a sign that says ''don't even walk over here''