• Targuinia [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    ITS A SIGNALISED CROSSING

    HES THE ONE BREAKING LIKE MULTIPLE LAWS

    eta: like literally tho how do you even equivocate between literally running a red light and hitting someone, and literally just using an actual pedestrian crossing

    death to America (incl Canada)

    • bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Yes like what about deaf people? Or people caring for screaming children that are louder than EVs? Or people crossing the road near any sort of construction?

  • booty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    What the fuck am I going to do with the sound of a car on a road??? I hear that all the time. All the time. Whether I’m crossing the street or not. I’m inside my house sitting at my computer right now and I can hear the sound of cars on the road. What exactly are you expecting me to do with the information that there is a car traveling down the road?! I know there is! There always is! I don’t need to hear it to know that! That’s why we have STREET LIGHTS and ROAD LAWS which mean that cars are supposed to stop traveling down the road in predictable situations such as WHEN THE LIGHT IS RED or WHEN IM CROSSING THE STREET

    honk-enraged

  • Rojo27 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    -Push the beg button

    -Cross the street with the light

    -Driver barrels towards crosswalk ignoring person and light while looking at phone

    Richmond policeboth-sides

    But seriously, what the fuck is the point of beg buttons and traffic lights if we’re still going to blame the pedestrian for getting hit by a car that isn’t respecting the rules of the road? Fucking carbrained ass society.

  • vertexarray [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Pedestrians should carry antimateriel rifles and destroy cars as they approach until all lanes are blocked in order to safely cross

    • CarbonScored [any]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      I’ve started doing the opposite. Thankfully I’m fairly tall and easily seen, so I frequently am the one to just walk out in front of cars who aren’t respecting road safety. Not in the middle of the highway, but if right of way is at all dubious, I’ve started claiming pedestrian / cyclist always wins. It’s a battle I’ll become roadkill to fight.

    • gabaghoul [any]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      There was a 90 year old who was smashed and killed walking down the road in a town nearby yesterday. I don’t want to be old just so I can become roadkill.