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I teach my kids rule number one as a pedestrian: You never have the right of way. Legally you might, and it's important to go when it's your turn after you've

I teach my kids rule number one as a pedestrian: You never have the right of way. Legally you might, and it's important to go when it's your turn after you've made active eye contact, but realistically the car will always win that fight.

hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
"Yield to gross tonnage" is how I've always put it.
- jollyllama 3y ago
  That's a good one. See also: "'He had his turn signal on' won't look good on your tombstone."
- falcolas 3y ago
  Learned this one from an old biker: The Right of Weight will always win.
- renewiltord 3y ago
  Seriously. That's how I've always described it. I drive a large vehicle. You will lose. Get out of the way. Use common sense and move. I like that. I'm going to put that on my car: "Yield To Gross Tonnage". Good shit.
  - hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
    It's not actually supposed to be a call to break the law...
    - renewiltord 3y ago
      It's a pretty good bumper sticker, though. It's like Pax Propter Vim. "Yield to Gross Tonnage". Cede Magni Ponderis
r00fus 3y ago
Cars take the role of megafauna we have been trained over millennia to respect.
- truckerbill 3y ago
  if only we could hunt
- tom_ 3y ago
  And the majority of them have been hunted to near extinction, in some cases not even because they're particularly dangerous, just because it's fun to shoot things. One person indeed stands no chance against such a beast, but that's why it's always a group of several people that takes the job on, and they come armed, and with a plan, and they don't stop until it's dead. People are very good at this, possibly too good, which I assume is why there are laws against doing this to drivers.
aranchelk 3y ago
Two of the times I’ve come closest to getting hit were in crosswalks when the driver appeared to look at me, the car slowed down, seeming to yield and then hit the gas. In the second case the driver stopped after, and told me she’d slowed because she was blinded by glare and then decided to just keep driving. I don’t even know how you teach that one to a kid — never cross the street?
fanatic2pope 3y ago
Waiting for eye contact is also becoming more difficult as more people are blacking out their front windows, effectively obscuring everything in the car even through the windshield.
- everybodyknows 3y ago
  Last I heard this is illegal -- yet here in SoCal it's pretty much fallen into the "unenforced" bin, along with unmuffled exhausts.
  - fanatic2pope 3y ago
    And here in Ohio driving with your high beams on all the time has become normal and I'm seeing more people with rear facing light bars too. All, I assume, breaking laws that appear to no longer be enforced.

hn_throwaway_99 3y ago

"Yield to gross tonnage" is how I've always put it.

jollyllama 3y ago
That's a good one. See also: "'He had his turn signal on' won't look good on your tombstone."
falcolas 3y ago
Learned this one from an old biker: The Right of Weight will always win.
renewiltord 3y ago
Seriously. That's how I've always described it. I drive a large vehicle. You will lose. Get out of the way. Use common sense and move. I like that. I'm going to put that on my car: "Yield To Gross Tonnage". Good shit.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
  It's not actually supposed to be a call to break the law...
  - renewiltord 3y ago
    It's a pretty good bumper sticker, though. It's like Pax Propter Vim. "Yield to Gross Tonnage". Cede Magni Ponderis

r00fus 3y ago

Cars take the role of megafauna we have been trained over millennia to respect.

truckerbill 3y ago
if only we could hunt
tom_ 3y ago
And the majority of them have been hunted to near extinction, in some cases not even because they're particularly dangerous, just because it's fun to shoot things. One person indeed stands no chance against such a beast, but that's why it's always a group of several people that takes the job on, and they come armed, and with a plan, and they don't stop until it's dead. People are very good at this, possibly too good, which I assume is why there are laws against doing this to drivers.

aranchelk 3y ago

Two of the times I’ve come closest to getting hit were in crosswalks when the driver appeared to look at me, the car slowed down, seeming to yield and then hit the gas. In the second case the driver stopped after, and told me she’d slowed because she was blinded by glare and then decided to just keep driving. I don’t even know how you teach that one to a kid — never cross the street?

fanatic2pope 3y ago

Waiting for eye contact is also becoming more difficult as more people are blacking out their front windows, effectively obscuring everything in the car even through the windshield.

everybodyknows 3y ago
Last I heard this is illegal -- yet here in SoCal it's pretty much fallen into the "unenforced" bin, along with unmuffled exhausts.
- fanatic2pope 3y ago
  And here in Ohio driving with your high beams on all the time has become normal and I'm seeing more people with rear facing light bars too. All, I assume, breaking laws that appear to no longer be enforced.