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oyster  ·  2199 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How a self-driving car killed a pedestrian in Arizona

You’re supposed to yeild the right of away, that’s not going to convince me to walk into a street in front of a car even when I have a crosswalk. People do it here when it’s icey or the road is covered in slush. I assume these people are poor because I assume they’ve never owned a vehicle and therefore don’t understand how much time it needs to stop especially in those conditions. Like the people who switch back into a lane right in front of a transport truck don’t really get it. Most people I know who have been hit by cars were hit from behind in some way because the vehicle wasn’t in its proper lane or paying attention to other vehicles.

This scenario though, it’s one of those times that it really looks like the pedestrian could have avoided it by valuing their well-being.