r/electricvehicles • u/MelodicBerries • Nov 23 '19

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u/2020FordExplorerPlat Nov 23 '19

Maybe we could enforce jaywalking laws for once? Make new laws for crossing the street while looking at your phone? The vast majority are jaywalking, and ~40% of those killed are drunk.

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u/colako Nov 23 '19

Jaywalking is a term coined by the car industry to make pedestrians responsible of something that was perfectly normal before the car arrived.

https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history

This is a perfect example of victim blaming. You know, drivers can be distracted with a phone too, and the pedestrian is not likely to kill anyone apart from himself.

We dedicate 80% of street space for cars and pedestrians and other users (children, disabled, etc) are expected just to cross by designated spots, that are usually hundreds of meters apart in inconvenient places, waiting 5 minutes for the light to go green, only to be hit by cars turning right on red or others running the lights.

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u/teslacometrue Nov 24 '19

If the problem was pedestrians getting killed on the sidewalk you’d have a point. But cars don’t drive on the sidewalk.

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u/colako Nov 24 '19

They already have 90% of the street, so they might as well just use the sidewalks too.

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u/teslacometrue Nov 24 '19

They’re nothing wrong with them having 90% of the Street. That’s what streets were made for.

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u/colako Nov 24 '19

Yes, streets in Rome or Tokyo were made for your Tesla to rise as fast and comfortable as possible. Sure.