[mslate]

Yes yes, the person outside of a car must provide deference to the car owner. Poor people serve the rich.

[eikenberry]

It's not about class, it's about staying alive. Cars win any encounter, hands down. My rule of crossing streets is to assume I am invisible and the drivers are not aware of my existence. This is, IMO, the only safe rule to follow when crossing the paths of fast moving, multi-ton machines with only minimal requirements made of the driver.

[hifromwork]

But we're talking about writing laws here. For example:

>with only minimal requirements made of the driver.

could easily be changed by changing the requirements.

[standardUser]

If you have a point you can feel free to make a point instead on snidely putting words in someone else's mouth.

And where exactly do you live where only rich people drive cars?

[goodpoint]

Are you saying that car ownership is equally distributed even down to the poorest 1%?

[7speter]

Reddit tells everyone that only rich people drives cars.

[matheusmoreira]

Of course they must. It's a two ton block of metal traveling at about 10 meters per second. Not yielding to the massive energetic slab of metal is quite simply irrational. Cars yield to trucks too. Anyone who doesn't has some kind of death wish. Some reality denying law doesn't really invalidate physics.

That's what always gets me with these "won't you think of the poor pedestrian" arguments. I never see people arguing for their god given right to stand in front a moving locomotive. Aircraft? Only time pedestrians are allowed anywhere near the runways where they accelerate is to board the plane. But somehow with cars it's alright. Dude walks in front of a train and it's suicide. Same dude walks in front of a car and it's murder.