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Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I’m always amazed to think that my life sometimes only holds to a red light and the drivers’ willingness to obey the law. If either were missing, only their will to keep their car clean could save me.
I’ve lived in plenty of places where when the lights worked, they were optional.
What you’re forgetting is that the other people don’t want to fuck up their car by hitting your car. Usually. Like 98% of the time. It’s the people looking for some mutually assured destruction that are the hazard, and they’re few and far between.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
It’s why you can go to the store and not worry about being murdered even though there’s nothing preventing that from happening.
It’s more like empathy making people not want to murder others
And the social contract accepts that cars kill pedestrians and cyclists every once in a while for the sake of efficiency. It’s dangerous, it’s legalized murder, and we choose to accept it.
It’s not just a cleanliness thing. Skeletons can cause expensive damage.
My first motorcycle accident was swerving around someone who decided to go on red.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I got mocked a few times as a kid for waiting until I see the cars stop at the red light before crossing. “Mate you can go, the lights red, they HAVE TO stop!”
No pal. They’re supposed to stop. Doesn’t mean shit until i see it happen
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
My friend asked why I’m looking both ways before crossing when it’s a one-way street.
Same deal. It’s legally one-way, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t some impatient dickhead driving down it the wrong way regardless.
First rule of road safety (as either a pedestrian or a driver) is to assume everyone else on the road is an absolute moron with no ability to drive.
CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
This is how I go generally in life. /jk
troglodytis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Also, pedestrians go both ways
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah I wait until the man goes green because there are some crossings at intersections where people will go “Oh but but I have to turn here, so I’m GONNA TURN HERE” and come right throught when it’s clearly red. Maybe they’re allowed to or used to be allowed to. Maybe they only look at the light for the perpendicular intersecting road and don’t realise intersections literally alternate. I hate the drivers where I live.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Law of physics versus law of man, physics win every time.
AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 2 months ago
Yep, I still check regardless.