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Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help. (www.forbes.com)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.::Pedestrian automatic emergency braking (AEB), which may become mandatory on U.S. cars in the future, tends to not perform well in the dark.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

A pedantic point from me here, but it's not 'jaywalking' if you have the right of way. It's only jaywalking if it's against regulations.

Still endangering yourself to trust drivers to stop at night I agree, right of way or not.

[–] grue 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

"Jaywalking" is propaganda, not a legitimate thing.

[–] nevemsenki 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's pretty real where I live. Pedestrians can get fined if they are being actively dangerous with it (eg stepping out from behind obstruction without making sure it's safe to do so), and the fault can be actually theirs if they cross outside a "safe" location.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do people still get fined for jaywalking in the likes of NY?

[–] kautau 9 points 11 months ago

Sure, but, as to be expected, it’s more of an avenue for racial profiling than anything else

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/01/27/jaywalking-while-black-final-2019-numbers-show-race-based-nypd-crackdown-continues

[–] BradleyUffner -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just because its origin was from propaganda doesn't make it not real. There are actual laws against Jay Walking, you can be charged and fined for it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

With good reason - predictability.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

AFAIK the law here in Ontario is that pedestrians can cross mid-block on a non-controlled-access-highway (ie a regular road not expressway) as long as any oncoming vehicles have plentiful space to safely come to a complete stop. You only lose the right-of-way as a pedestrian if you're doing something that forces drivers to make emergency manoeuvres.