the group of pedestrian safety advocates explain that waving a red flag while crossing an intersection to get drivers’ attention “misses the point.”
“When drivers fail to yield for pedestrians, it’s not because they can’t see them, it’s because they don’t care.”
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in reply to @MxSelfDestruct's post:
I saw someone put one of these up to get across the roads beneath the Granville island overpass and yeah, I kinda feel like a brick would have helped out when I used to go there.
in reply to @catball's post:
i hope this isn't an april fools, the foam bricks are such a good bit. the only thing people in cars fear is somethign that could hurt their precious car
This reminds me of something from Fahrenheit 451, a detail that stuck with me more than most when I read it for school even though it wasn't, y'know, on one of those "what are the themes of the book" worksheets or whatever. Which is when the protagonist is about to get hit by a car and in a panic drops flat on the ground, and the novel notes that the driver swerves, not because they didn't want to hit him (they were intentionally aiming for him before) but because they thought running over a man lying on the ground was more likely to make the car flip than ramming him head-on.
idk I didn't think this is super relevant to the article but I was struck by the similarity of this "seeing pedestrians but just not caring" to that fictional moment of calculated malice that I've thought about for decades.
when i was a pedestrian in seattle, i would just walk over peoples hoods in my big docs, people are real polite when youre 6ft 2 with a mohawk
maybe they shared notes with the guy avoiding getting splashed by cars driving through puddles the same way https://youtu.be/_pecj2vb2SA
lacking a brick, I once punched a car that was trying to slow-roll through an intersection while people were still crossing
somehow didn't hurt my hand or get beaten up, so I think it's a viable tactic
in reply to @OniLink's post:
I feel the same, but I also think that as long as most drivers don't know for sure the bricks are foam at a glance before slowing to consider it, it's good that there's no possibility for the direct action to increase the amount of harm going around.