General Road and Highway Discussion

[danbrotherston]

"The survey found that the most frequently witnessed dangerous behaviours are adult pedestrians using their cellphones while crossing the street or crossing unsafely at an uncontrolled place midblock. Other dangerous behaviours included drivers double parking, speeding and stopping in undesignated areas."

This kind of statement bugs me so much.  Someone crossing while looking at their phone is not creating a danger for anyone but possibly themselves.

They aren't even equally risky behaviours, given that a driver will travel an order of magnitude farther during the three seconds they're looking at their phone, and generally, drivers have fewer alternate senses available to them for identifying dangers.

This false equivalence is so prevalent.....