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Pedestrians can block normal cars too. If someone stands in the crosswalk a driver is basically unable to move forward. There's no circumstance where it is cons
by ianbicking 5y ago
Pedestrians can block normal cars too. If someone stands in the crosswalk a driver is basically unable to move forward. There's no circumstance where it is considered acceptable to hit a pedestrian, no matter how difficult the predestrian is being (unless you are some psychopath, like many GOP representatives are given the pro-vehicular-manslaughter laws they've proposed).
Or for a more familiar circumstance, parking lots involve a complex negotiation where pedestrians have complete priority. People figure it out, though it's not always easy. Pedestrians could cause trouble with regular drivers.
Less generously I could see fines being used to pressure or punish people who do not go out of their way to create an optimal environment for self-driving cars. People who loiter too close to the curb. Any traffic calming measure that might be misrecognized. Things that people who hang out on sidewalks do now, but also people who are seen as a nuisance (there being a significant overlap between those two already).
- nybble41 5y ago> There's no circumstance where it is considered acceptable to hit a pedestrian, no matter how difficult the predestrian is being… Obviously drivers are not permitted to simply run into pedestrians either deliberately or negligently no matter how obnoxious their behavior might be, though it is understood that pedestrians are perfectly capable of unilaterally creating situations where a collision cannot reasonably be avoided. However, that does not mean pedestrians cannot also be at fault for intentionally obstructing traffic. Pedestrians have priority due to their fragility, and with that comes a responsibility not to abuse said priority to the detriment of other users of the roads.