The pedestrian crossing signal is red, though? That strongly implies he has a green light, in which case he’s not doing anything wrong here - this happens absolutely constantly while waiting for a lane to clear, and is almost invariably just a momentary stop due to trafdic patterns. If he’s still there when the signal changes then yeah he’s a king prick, but this image doesn’t show anything wrong (besides the inherent wrongness of car-centered infrastructure)
But are you comfortable bullying some guy based on your guess about what’s happening here? Again we don’t actually know that he can’t fully clear it - those rules apply to being able to clear an intersection before a cycle change (or when it would obstruct an emergency vehicle), which from what we can see isn’t happening.
Alternative completely reasonable explanations:
he’s a short man in a car with a high hood, he’s reversed into the crosswalk from the spot immediately in front of him because he’s pulling out (this would explain the slight cant to his wheels) and he overshot due to the restricted sightlines his height gives him.
He has pulled back because there is a larger vehicle parked in front of him and he wanted the visibility
A person is pulling out of the space ahead of him and he pulled into the crosswalk during the cycle to not obstruct traffic while they move out (which would mean he is clear of the crosswalk on the cycle change again)
This is at the parking / no parking change over (it does appear to be early morning or evening by the shadows) and the person in front of him pulled into a spot without him realizing they were going to do that (christ this one happens to me all the damn time, and not just at changeover)
He’s pulled over to pick up a pedestrian who is out of frame
He is pulled over because an emergency vehicle is coming the other direction
There are a lot of reasonable explanations for this that don’t warrant hating him personally. I loathe cars and car-centric infrastructure, but I also get incredibly uncomfortable with how eager people here are to wish harm on strangers because of a single contextless image - and again in this case, one that doesn’t even show them doing anything wrong.
@Warl0k3@axexrx Motorists are responsible for selecting a vehicle they can operate safely. If a vehicle isn’t designed to be operated safely by a person of your height, you shouldn’t drive it. There are vehicles available that work for shorter people, though the market keeps producing less of them since everyone believes it’s morally acceptable to choose a vehicle for status or style rather than safety.
The pedestrian crossing signal is red, though? That strongly implies he has a green light, in which case he’s not doing anything wrong here - this happens absolutely constantly while waiting for a lane to clear, and is almost invariably just a momentary stop due to trafdic patterns. If he’s still there when the signal changes then yeah he’s a king prick, but this image doesn’t show anything wrong (besides the inherent wrongness of car-centered infrastructure)
They appear to be in the parking lane, but in the blocked off area for the crosswalk, waiting.
Still though, my understanding is that in NYC, you may not enter an intersection you are u able to fully clear, including the crosswalk.
My dude, calling traffic laws a suggestion in NYC is giving them too much credit. There’s literally zero enforcement.
There is literally a cop looking at this car in the picture.
Trying to ascertain the driver’s race.
But are you comfortable bullying some guy based on your guess about what’s happening here? Again we don’t actually know that he can’t fully clear it - those rules apply to being able to clear an intersection before a cycle change (or when it would obstruct an emergency vehicle), which from what we can see isn’t happening.
Alternative completely reasonable explanations:
he’s a short man in a car with a high hood, he’s reversed into the crosswalk from the spot immediately in front of him because he’s pulling out (this would explain the slight cant to his wheels) and he overshot due to the restricted sightlines his height gives him.
He has pulled back because there is a larger vehicle parked in front of him and he wanted the visibility
A person is pulling out of the space ahead of him and he pulled into the crosswalk during the cycle to not obstruct traffic while they move out (which would mean he is clear of the crosswalk on the cycle change again)
This is at the parking / no parking change over (it does appear to be early morning or evening by the shadows) and the person in front of him pulled into a spot without him realizing they were going to do that (christ this one happens to me all the damn time, and not just at changeover)
He’s pulled over to pick up a pedestrian who is out of frame
He is pulled over because an emergency vehicle is coming the other direction
There are a lot of reasonable explanations for this that don’t warrant hating him personally. I loathe cars and car-centric infrastructure, but I also get incredibly uncomfortable with how eager people here are to wish harm on strangers because of a single contextless image - and again in this case, one that doesn’t even show them doing anything wrong.
@Warl0k3 @axexrx Motorists are responsible for selecting a vehicle they can operate safely. If a vehicle isn’t designed to be operated safely by a person of your height, you shouldn’t drive it. There are vehicles available that work for shorter people, though the market keeps producing less of them since everyone believes it’s morally acceptable to choose a vehicle for status or style rather than safety.
But in this hypothetical he is operating it safely.
I mean, someone made sure to crop the photo in a specific way so yeah, this looks like a rage bait post and nothing else.