• nocturne213@lemm.ee
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        Cars in New Mexico appear to have brake failures are every stop sign, they slow down but do not stop.

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        When it done where I am at we call it a California stop. Explains where that name comes from that they actually have a saying for that type of "stopping ".

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        KY/OH here. It’s not a Cali thing, it’s an American thing. Almost daily I have people rolling through stop signs or just straight up not stopping at stop lights if they’re turning right.

        Story time: drove in Europe for the first time this year. Totally different. Lower speed limits even with that weird metric system. Way less lights and more round abouts and stop signs.

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        While not legal in many places to do a rolling stop, for the most part I find them safer if done correct. It allows you to get up to speed quite a bit faster while using a bit less energy. Something good for the environment and can keep traffic flowing better.

        Also a full stop is harder on your vehicle. It puts more force on your bushings and brakes. You notice it on a hard stop where you feel that brief reverse movement. It rather minor if your not overly aggressive.

        It rather small stuff but the flip side is some people will do aggressive rolling stops negating much of the safety factor. Thus the rules are enforced black and white.

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      To be fair, when your doing 40 and you are 50 feet from the crosswalk, you can’t stop either.

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      I heard it takes like 1 mile 1km for a train to come to a complete stop.

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      Not in Mexico. Well it is kind of fluid anyhow.

      I do find that it rather works well though. People don’t automatically assume they have right of way and this don’t just walk out in front of cars. Ignoring the tourists that is. It actually allows for better traffic flows and I find cars stop when it makes sense. Ie. You might see people wanting to cross and you know the traffic ahead is stopped so it makes sense to use that pause to let people cross.

      And because the rules are a bit fluid, people and cars seem more cautious. People in particular. It seems more chaotic but the fatality rates are still quite low while maintaining good flow.

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          As said, it is a bit fluid. If you just walk out into a crosswalk and get driven over then likely won’t be any charges. If you enter a crosswalk reflecting all cars to stop, that is rather risky. If a car has time to stop but doesn’t, the driver will be getting charged. Generally people wait for traffic to have a pause before they use a cross walk. In some really busy areas down town there will always be people waiting at a cross walk. Literally there would be near zero movement of automobile as you could spend an hour waiting for a crosswalk to clear.

          Personally from a person that walks often, I rarely wait anytime to cross a street. Traffic flows a best it can but stops enough I can easily cross. At a controlled intersection in Canada you can wait two, there, four minutes till you get a walk for example. Waiting that long is very rare as you take your turn first chance you get.

          For lack of better description, they put a higher expectation of personal responsibility. Someone walking should easily be able to tell when it is safe to do something and can easily change their path to ovoid an unsafe condition. They use this same logic in shipping and flying. The smaller vessel typically gives way to the larger less easy to maneuver vessel.

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    When I was in Nepal, busses would round blind corners on barely-two-lane cliffside roads - meaning 100+ metre cliffs above AND below - at full speed, and their only warning was just a bunch of honks. The problem is there’s so much honking it’s hard to imagine anyone can tell where it’s coming from, especially given the people you’re trying to warn are around the corner and can probably only hear you due to echoes coming from the far side of the valley.

    The game for me became, count how many busses were destroyed at the bottom of the cliffs, or hanging precariously over the edge having punched through the concrete barrier, or tipped on their side in the lowlands, or just… fucking INTEGRATED with one another after a head on collision that definitely killed both drivers and anyone sitting in the driver’s quadrant of each bus.

    I definitely lost count, except for that last example of which I saw exactly one (1), and I learned that honking is no substitute for real infrastructure. Structural adjustment policies killed those people.

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      Neither do they here (Austria) even though my driving instructor was adamant that they do. “You can trust that if there’s no honk, there is no train.”

      Thanks, driving instructor, but I’d rather go with “if there is no train, then there is no train”.

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    Trains only honk because they can’t stop, so all they can do is warn. Cars should not be going so fast they can’t stop on city streets. Also, trains always have the right-of-way, but cars never do, even on roads without crosswalks or sidewalks. They must always yield to all pedestrians in any situation.

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    Where I live, pedestrians have the right of way at crosswalks (fun fact: when this was introduced somewhere in the 70s, car drivers have been angry about it)

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      Serious question: are there places in the world that have marked pedestrian crossings (crosswalks), but vehicles DON’T have to give way to pedestrians?

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        In Prague, pedestrians officially have the right of way, but most drivers don’t seem to know that.

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        Yes, Germany.

        They have two types of pedestrian crosswalks. One of them is the standard “zebra crossing”, where the whole crosswalk is maked with white stripes and there pedestrians have right of way.

        The other one just has just dashes at the sides of the crossing, and here pedestrians have no right of way. But if these are present (same with the other type) pedestrians are not allowed to cross the road for iirc 50 meters left or right of the crossing. So it essentially turns the road left and right of the crossing into a “no crossing allowed” zone.

        They do this at traffic lights, so that if the light doesn’t work pedestrians don’t have right of way. And sometimes they just do it to annoy pedestrians, because it’s car-country Germany and fuck pedestrians or something.

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        Not long ago in Poland a pedestrian would have the right of way only after they were already on the crossing. So if you would get killed on a crosswalk that would be classified as intrusion and the driver would go scot-free

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        In most states in the US, if the automobile traffic has the green light and the pedestrian traffic has a “don’t walk” sign, then the pedestrians are supposed to yield to the cars.

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          Sorry, I guess I should have more specific - if it’s a signalled pedestrian crossing, of course the signals need to be followed. I was wondering in the context of a crossing that only has markings, but no signals.

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            It looks like it changed last year, but the UK. The law was previously that pedestrians in a crosswalk should wait until it was clear to start crossing, as opposed to cars should stop if someone is waiting to cross.

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            I remember in NJ USA as a kid being told that cars didn’t have to stop at zebra crossings. I don’t know if it was true, I wasn’t skeptically investigating things when I was 7.

            The best I could find was this blog talking about how the rules say they should stop, but they frequently don’t: https://www.expataussieinnj.com/understanding-road-rules-for-pedestrians-in-nj/

            So maybe the rules are one way, but the locals don’t follow it so you can’t treat the rule as being in place.

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      People keep posting things saying that, it’s not even true.

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        What do you mean? It’s true in Denmark. It’s the law that cars have to stop at marked acrosswalks.

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          Yes, that’s what I’m saying. Driver’s aren’t all pissy, it’s bullshit.

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            Drivers are upset about it, here. If it came up to vote, they’d get rid of it.

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    No, it doesnt make sense for the following reason:

    Trains have priority. Road users are required by law to yield to them.

    Unless the crosswalk is signalized, cars do NOT have priority & are required by law to crosswalk users.

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    What is glorious is riding high speed trains in other countries. They are built like our interstates, with all crossings either over or under. They don’t use their horn. It is just quit and smooth, and you can get up and walk around, get a tea, or use the restroom. It is far more comfortable than traveling by car.

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    Not related but man it is so nice to visit places where honking is rare. I am in PV Mexico alot and honking is rare even though driving is quite random and rules are only optional. Driving is actually fairly stress free as it is rare to see anyone angry.

    Then you drive in Panama city, Panama. Still no one is angry but honking is continues. Don’t turn on a blinker to lane change. Just honk and do it. Regardless of there is a space for you.

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    I have heard that when cars were a rare thing in the Old West that drivers had to stop at intersections, get out, and fire a gun to warn any horse-powered cross traffic. It sounds like total bs but there have been stranger laws…

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      Only in the past handful of years was it no longer made illegal to sneeze in public here in Texas.

      It was an old holdover law from when sneezing might spook someone’s horse. Not enforced for obvious reasons, though.