clearly you’ve never been to Glendale CA where the aggro drivers look you in the eye as you’re in the middle of the intersection with the walking man symbol lighted up and proceeds to flip you the bird for trying to get somewhere on two legs and drives a few feet from you anyways to make that turn.

I agree that the pedestrian has responsibility for being aware of their surroundings and should behave accordingly, the driver has a similar, and perhaps greater responsibility, to be aware of their surroundings as they are in control of a ton or more of mass.

100% agree with this.  Pedestrians have some responsibility here to at least acknowledge their surroundings.  If you are paying attention and going with the flow of traffic/walkers, it’s very rarely an issue at all.

I have never had a problem, primarily because if I am crossing the road I am 100% staring directly at the drivers, and more specifically their wheels. Same when driving, if there is a car stopped to pull into the lane of traffic, drivers ed at least when I took it, tells you to look at the driver to see if they are…

I seem to recall in drivers ed that you’re supposed to stop at the stop line BEFORE the crosswalk no matter what, and only after checking if it’s safe should you creep forward to attempt your right turn. Seems to me simply enforcing this rule would prevent all these problems. People rolling right into the crosswalk is…

exactly, you can be in the right and still get killed. gotta try to protect yourself. i run daily and the shit i’ve seen cars do is mind boggling. ban right on red if you want, i’m still not trusting them to not just blow through it anyway.

100% agree.  Very nicely stated. I wanted to say much the same, but your comment is probably better than anything I would have wrote.

I think they’re just summarizing the average interaction a pedestrian would ideally have with a right-turning vehicle.

I like your optimism, I hope that’s true

They weren’t actively being an asshole; they are just an average idiot with no situational awareness or critical thinking skills.

If you have the option between slow and fast, then yes, absolutely, why are you even asking? Always act as you would hope others would act if the situation was reversed. I am sure Kant would have been happy to use EV charges to illustrate his reasoning.

Very much this. 

This. If I have a crush injury I only want someone who knows what they’re doing uncrushing me.

This. 

Imagine not remembering that this was the way it used to be.  No one went shopping at the airport then, they wont do it now.  It just means that people who are stuck at the airport have to suffer less.  If means you can meet people during layovers for lunch or shopping.

Your Alfa Romeo started?

“...praying for peace and comfort for all those impacted.”

I like Jalopnik and have been a reader for years but find myself at TheDrive more often because of headlines and shitty journalism like this. 

I really don’t understand what y’all are whining about with these. They’re higher than 15 inches from the road, you don’t need to convince yourself that they’re dangerous and illegal just because you’re not a fan of the design choice.

“no carbon fiber sub had ever gone that deep before.”