Your story of the time you encountered a drunk/stoned/distracted pedestrian is not really helpful to this discussion. No one is claiming that pedestrians are so

Your story of the time you encountered a drunk/stoned/distracted pedestrian is not really helpful to this discussion. No one is claiming that pedestrians are someone perfect. The fact is that most collisions are caused by an error on the part of the driver. Knowing who to blame still doesn't help but false claims that the pedestrians are to blame tend to cause people to forget about the problem.