sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agoIf Phones Are Killing Pedestrians, Why Is It Only Happening in America?www.thedrive.comexternal-linkmessage-square137fedilinkarrow-up1452
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minus-squareORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·26 days agoSame. Daily. WTAF is so important you have to stare at your phone in a crosswalk?
minus-squaresexy_peach@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·26 days agodon’t pedestrians have right of way on crosswalks??
minus-squaredb2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·26 days agoCemeteries are full of people who had the right of way. You still have to pay some basic attention to your surroundings.
minus-squareExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·26 days agoI think what the experts are saying is that bigger cars are more deadly. Being distracted wasn’t always a death sentence.
minus-squaretake6056@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·26 days agoThe simplest method to get away with murder is causing a car accident.
minus-squarekboos1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·26 days agoYes, but I guess your family can argue that you had the right of way when a giant truck turns you into a hood ornament because you were watching Facebook shorts instead of looking both ways before crossing a street
minus-squaresexy_peach@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 days agoI guess it’s a different situation in Germany compares to the US
minus-squaresexy_peach@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·24 days agoHere you can pretty much cross the street on a crosswalk without looking because people are more careful.
minus-squareTalcosis@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·26 days agoAccording to the laws of man, yes. According to the laws of physics? Nope.
minus-squarenosuchanon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·26 days agoPhones are an addiction. Every moment of your attention is demanded by social media.
minus-squareDettweiler@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·26 days agoIn my cases, there was no crosswalk. Straight up reckless jaywalking.
Same. Daily. WTAF is so important you have to stare at your phone in a crosswalk?
don’t pedestrians have right of way on crosswalks??
Cemeteries are full of people who had the right of way. You still have to pay some basic attention to your surroundings.
I think what the experts are saying is that bigger cars are more deadly. Being distracted wasn’t always a death sentence.
The simplest method to get away with murder is causing a car accident.
Yes, but I guess your family can argue that you had the right of way when a giant truck turns you into a hood ornament because you were watching Facebook shorts instead of looking both ways before crossing a street
I guess it’s a different situation in Germany compares to the US
How? Please elaborate
Here you can pretty much cross the street on a crosswalk without looking because people are more careful.
According to the laws of man, yes.
According to the laws of physics? Nope.
Phones are an addiction. Every moment of your attention is demanded by social media.
In my cases, there was no crosswalk. Straight up reckless jaywalking.