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You can already stop traffic by doing this. Why not give it a go? ;) On a serious note: I'm sure strolling into highway traffic will be approximately as legal
by xnxn 11y ago
You can already stop traffic by doing this. Why not give it a go? ;)
On a serious note: I'm sure strolling into highway traffic will be approximately as legal as it is presently.
- pdxandi 11y agoAll joking aside, that's exactly how traffic works in Portland.
- masklinn 11y agoAlso belgium and germany. Getting too close to the street/sidewalk interface will often cause cars to stop even if you have no intension whatsoever of crossing.
- resurge 11y agoI'm Belgian and now living in Norway, it's even "worse" here. It's really one of the first things you notice when being here. Being a few meters off from a crosswalk cars will stop while they would easily be able to drive on before you (Which they would do in Belgium).
- chrismealy 11y agoHow many people on foot and bike are killed and maimed in Portland every year? It's not zero.
- fixermark 11y agoNot to mention that with the self-driving cars working as a functional panopticon, doing this and getting away with it for lengths of time is unlikely. Even ignoring the privacy-scary scenarios of the car auto-emailing the cops to say "Dear local PD, this guy just jaywalked and halted traffic on Oak Ln, here's my [sensor gestalt] to prove it and a [photo of the offender]", it'd be pretty trivial for anyone owning a fleet of these machines who was tired of jaywalkers slowing down their commute to dump data on jaywalk-stops in the aggregate, giving cops all the numbers they need to target enforcement.