Oh right, you’re on about the swathes of people who just walk down the middle of road as a matter of course. I can’t be arsed with this discussion any more. Let’s just assume that I acknowledge your ‘right’ to indiscriminately mow pedestrians down for the crime of ‘being in the road’
Because I have a right to walk where I want, wearing what I want. To suggest that I must select my clothing to conform some stranger’s desire to speed around in a car, paying the bare minimum of attention to the road or conditions, on penalty of death or serious injury, is ridiculous.
Driving so fast that you can’t see or react to pedestrians is stupid and dangerous. Why us it such a hard concept for you to understand?
You do realize that not every road is perfectly flat, straight, or well lit, right?
And no, you don’t have a right to walk where you want. Jaywalking laws exist for a reason, and it’s because idiots like you think their principals trump the laws of physics.
You also keep talking about speeding. At no point was speeding part of this conversation until you brought it up. Another strawman because you know damn well your argument doesn’t make any sense. The speed doesn’t matter unless you’re expecting everyone to drive 10mph everywhere.
People hit deer all the time for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with excess speed. If any object is in the road, or enters the road, the human reaction time and the vehicle stopping distance might not be enough.
It’s your responsibility to stay off of the road if the conditions aren’t sufficient for a vehicle going the speed limit to stop in time. Those conditions include your visibility, and your clothing choices affect it.
But, if you are stupid enough to go walking in the road, at night, in dark clothes, please at least register as an organ donor.
Nice strawman, buddy. No one said anything about neon or flashing lights.
If you’re walking in the road at night wearing dark clothes, you’re an idiot and a road hazard.
If you’re driving too fast, you’re the hazard, not me.
You clearly don’t understand what road hazard is.
A road hazard is a hazard encountered while driving a vehicle. A person being in the road when they shouldn’t be is a road hazard.
Why am I not allowed to cross the road?
No one, at any point in this discussion, said anything about crossing the road.
Oh right, you’re on about the swathes of people who just walk down the middle of road as a matter of course. I can’t be arsed with this discussion any more. Let’s just assume that I acknowledge your ‘right’ to indiscriminately mow pedestrians down for the crime of ‘being in the road’
You’re either an absolute moron, or you’re being intentionally obtuse.
At no point did anyone support mowing down pedestrians. Stop creating strawmen.
The entire point of this discussion was that wearing dark clothes and walking in the street at night is stupid and dangerous.
I’m not sure why this is such a hard concept for you to grasp.
Because I have a right to walk where I want, wearing what I want. To suggest that I must select my clothing to conform some stranger’s desire to speed around in a car, paying the bare minimum of attention to the road or conditions, on penalty of death or serious injury, is ridiculous.
Driving so fast that you can’t see or react to pedestrians is stupid and dangerous. Why us it such a hard concept for you to understand?
You do realize that not every road is perfectly flat, straight, or well lit, right?
And no, you don’t have a right to walk where you want. Jaywalking laws exist for a reason, and it’s because idiots like you think their principals trump the laws of physics.
You also keep talking about speeding. At no point was speeding part of this conversation until you brought it up. Another strawman because you know damn well your argument doesn’t make any sense. The speed doesn’t matter unless you’re expecting everyone to drive 10mph everywhere.
People hit deer all the time for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with excess speed. If any object is in the road, or enters the road, the human reaction time and the vehicle stopping distance might not be enough.
It’s your responsibility to stay off of the road if the conditions aren’t sufficient for a vehicle going the speed limit to stop in time. Those conditions include your visibility, and your clothing choices affect it.
But, if you are stupid enough to go walking in the road, at night, in dark clothes, please at least register as an organ donor.