Maybe a cop would consider it jaywalking, and it’s definitely a dick move, but I wasn’t taught that there were really exceptions.
They aren’t supposed to walk out and if they’re already in the road they’re supposed to get out asap, but that doesn’t make it ok to try and drive by like they aren’t in the road with some sort of confidence that it’s somehow their job to get out of your way.
At the end of the day they’re a sack of cloth, skin, meat, blood, and bones. You’re sitting in a carefully engineered multi-ton slab of plastic and metal more similar to an early tank than it is to a horse and buggy, and those already could trample people to death.
Even when the pedestrian has an active do-not-cross signal?
Maybe a cop would consider it jaywalking, and it’s definitely a dick move, but I wasn’t taught that there were really exceptions.
They aren’t supposed to walk out and if they’re already in the road they’re supposed to get out asap, but that doesn’t make it ok to try and drive by like they aren’t in the road with some sort of confidence that it’s somehow their job to get out of your way.
At the end of the day they’re a sack of cloth, skin, meat, blood, and bones. You’re sitting in a carefully engineered multi-ton slab of plastic and metal more similar to an early tank than it is to a horse and buggy, and those already could trample people to death.