This is very regional, you cannot generalize across a country the size of the United States. In my city motorists stop immediately if you even look like you mi

This is very regional, you cannot generalize across a country the size of the United States. In my city motorists stop immediately if you even look like you might want to cross the road. I've even inadvertently caused someone to get a ticket myself because I didn't look before stepping off the curb, and as soon as I did that the crosswalk became mine. I would have just let the car go, he was pretty close, and it would have been unreasonable to force him to jam the brakes and screech to a halt, but by putting my foot in that crosswalk I made it illegal for him not to stop, and the cop 100 feet up the road whipped out and wrote him a ticket for it. Cops around here like to do that.