"If your ultimate goal is to stay alive, then the burden of care is on YOU." This is theoretically true in all of life, so it's kind of a vacuous and IMHO not

"If your ultimate goal is to stay alive, then the burden of care is on YOU." This is theoretically true in all of life, so it's kind of a vacuous and IMHO not very useful point. IE if someone doesn't stop when you have the right of way, it doesn't make you any less dead when they run you over. Realize the reason the law exists is precisely to force the burden back onto homeowners, and that is in fact, the likely outcome.