You are still at fault for hitting a pedestrian who isn't even using a crosswalk but is just walking across the road so that argument still doesn't work. At be

You are still at fault for hitting a pedestrian who isn't even using a crosswalk but is just walking across the road so that argument still doesn't work. At best if they can prove that was the case, it opens the city up to liability for failing to maintain infrastructure or allow the infrastructure to gracefully degrade/fail. Also a similar system to this already exists outside the US (ex: Pedestrian Crossing or Kerb detectors [1] at Puffin crossings in the UK) to extend the crosswalk time if pedestrians are still using the crosswalk. 1. https://www.agd-systems.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/326_-Datasheet_ISS4.pdf https://www.agd-systems.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/326_-...