I never said "every possible illegal or unexpected obstruction". What I said was "if you drive so fast you can't avoid something blocking your lane by the time

I never said "every possible illegal or unexpected obstruction". What I said was "if you drive so fast you can't avoid something blocking your lane by the time you see it, you're going too fast." Your quote, in fact, confirms what I said: However, if the jaywalker strolls into the street a few hundred yards ahead of the car and the driver does not slow down or swerve, the driver could be held responsible. This was clearly not a case of "someone stepping out right in front of the car", since they were more than halfway across the rightmost lane, walking a bicycle. Edit: This rule is merely a variation on the universally accepted one that says that if you rear-end someone in another vehicle, you're almost universally at fault (unless it can be proven that they acted in such a way that the collision was unavoidable.) The logic being that if you could not avoid a collision, you were going too fast for the distance you had to the vehicles in front of you. Are you suggesting that drivers should be less liable for running into stationary objects than they are for running into other vehicles? That seems absurd to me.