People seem to be in more of a hurry now. The general common-sense level of the population seems to have dipped, causing pedestrians to make stupid decisions,

People seem to be in more of a hurry now. The general common-sense level of the population seems to have dipped, causing pedestrians to make stupid decisions, like running across a road at night(I see this a lot). Pedestrians are also capable of being distracted by their phones.