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Why the fuck do cars here have to be so comically big? And why do the people driving them have to be such utter assholes. I was trying to cross the street to get back to my dorm room yesterday and 2 cars at the same crosswalk almost hit me. Like the fuck, the first had all the time in the world to slow down but only did so seconds before hitting me. The second was a person who sped up to go around the first car that wasn’t paying attention and almost hit me again. Maybe if you don’t want to have to stop for pedestrians maybe don’t drive through a college campus?!! I know what a wild concept
They are psychopaths.
Oh most definitely, under the local laws here drivers are required to yield to a pedestrian if they can reasonably do so. If they hit me they would always be liable since it doesn’t matter if I had been in a marked crosswalk (like I was) or not since they have the responsibility to stop.
Sad thing is this isn’t even a rare occurrence, it happens almost every single day and nothing is done about it
@oxysis @FenrirIII If the "here" refers to the United States, the reason is that lawmakers there have made it so that building bigger cars is more beneficial economically for car manufacturers (even though it's literally deadly for everyone else): https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution
Conspicuous consumption