> If a driver sees me walking in the crosswalk and notices that our paths will intersect, he speeds up. I've lived in the US all my life and I don't recall see

> If a driver sees me walking in the crosswalk and notices that our paths will intersect, he speeds up. I've lived in the US all my life and I don't recall seeing this even once. On the other hand, the thing I experience that infuriates me is when the walk sign comes on so I start to step off the curb to cross and a car making a right turn at my corner of the intersection doesn't even pretend to check for pedestrians and comes barreling through the corner because they were trying to beat the red light. Most of the time they see me at the last second and stop before running me over. I make a point of quickly stepping back on to curb and giving them a death stare before I continue. Sometimes they don't see me and barrel through the corner. If I don't step back, I would get run over. Infuriating.