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Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

You could blame the pedestrian, but it would be incorrect.

So there’s no situation where a pedestrian is at fault? If a pedestrian sprints out from behind a wall into traffic moving 70MPH, that’s 100% the driver’s fault for hitting them? This is the logic you want to go with?

A pedestrian is more vulnerable and harmless than a vehicle

What does that have to do with whose responsibility it is!?

and arguably has more of a reason to be traveling through the downdown of a city on foot than the vehicle does

No they don’t? And why are we downtown?

Imagine for a moment if in the model t days, the dangerous vehicle was held responsible and regulated instead of the people walking.

You mean instead of a world where we hold responsible the people who are actually responsible?

We would have walkable cities today and cars wouldn’t be allowed to take over.

No, we would just have more criminals. The only way we have walkable cities is by banning cars.

We are not talking about individual blame, we’re upset at the historical choices that led to a car centric landscape.

I know you want to talk about that. I agree with you. But it is, in fact, not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about the supposed use of the word “jaywalking” implying that all pedestrians are to blame for collisions.

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