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This is how pedestrians die on Chicago streets
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....chicago?
Bruh... this is common in EVERY single car-centric municipality. I walk in toronto, a whole different country , and THIS is a daily occurrence for me. Even when I get the license plates ofo the people who do it and report them.... nothing happens....
And as far as Im concerned THIS is exactly what most people want, chicago or toronto, since there hasnt been a subtantial action substantiated by people to change this ... so....
You'd be beaten to a fine pulp if you acted like this in Europe.
Meanwhile, in Asia where lots of countries have a different system/culture, the cars would not go that fast when passing by a pedestrian. The idea is basically that pedestrians just walk into the road and the cars adjust their speed to allow the pedestrians to pass.
I've been to southern Europe, you're fooling no one. Europeans are not immune to the empathy-dissolving powers of the automobile. Only meaningful infrastructure and enforcement fixes this, and the places in Europe where motorists are reasonable have those things. They didn't get there through mob beat-downs.
Ah, forgot I'm on Lemmy where everything is interpreted literally. My bad.
You're right - in Europe, street vigilantes won't pass you through a fine-mesh strainer for breaking the law. What's real is that even in Southern Europe not giving right of way to pedestrians is not only a crime, it is also a social death sentence.
You couldn't act like the driver in the video for long without running into some serious problems with basically everyone you meet. Imagine taking a dump in the park every morning and expect to get to live a normal life among the other civilized people of your city - it's just not gonna fly.
That's fair, you mean people ultimately aren't strangers to one another, the community will remember you.
Yeah even in larger cities you'll get noticed if you repeat this kind of behavior. And your friends would leave you pretty quickly.
If you have any videos or articles of these people being beaten into a fine pulp please do share , DM or any other way I dont care , cause I need proof that the people are actually substantiate something substantial about it lol.
Yeah I'm in Portland where 1) We have a reputation domestically for being ahead of the curve on urban design and 2) State law says that cars must always wait for pedestrians at any crossing, signaled or painted or otherwise. But it all falls apart as soon as reality hits the road: If the speed limit is over 25MPH, it's likely that a driver won't stop for you unless you're already in the road. And if a road has two lanes forget it. Drivers see someone stopped at a crosswalk in the next lane over and just think "Why did this dipshit stop their car in the middle of the lane?" before blowing past them like the car in the video. Cars remove the ability for humans to see each other as peers and it is lethal, if there are cars there needs to be forcible traffic control measures that don't rely on good will alone. We need traffic real signalling, not virtue signalling.