pedestrians

The self-regulatory mechanisms don't give the pedestrians or other non-parties a lever to advocate on their own behalf.

While pedestrians do get run over, it's at a far less frequent rate than car-on-car accidents happen.

It's uncool to drive in Portland Oregon because pedestrians and bicyclists have challenged and won over motorists.

People move into the city or into faux-urban areas that are friendlier to pedestrians, that aren’t barnacled on a highway.

Products were less safe (eg cars were more likely to kill pedestrians in accidents) etc.

E.g.: someone on a bicycle could intentionally ride through a crowd of pedestrians knowing that robocars won't just blast through to follow.

Over time, my community of insubordinate pedestrians may significantly reduce the incentive to drive.

This was most pronounced in pedestrians: they ignore traffic lights and j-walk at will.

That is the thing with driving - it's amongst other drivers, pedestrians, especially children.

These are actually illegal in Germany because they increase injury likelihood for pedestrians.

Another question which still puzzles me after all my trips to UK, London in particular, should pedestrians on pavement walk on left or right?

And even then, The overwhelming majority of cabbies who killed and maimed passengers and pedestrians in the past five years are back behind the wheel.

As for needing to avoid things, would you call traffic circles or pedestrians a "hazard" as well?

Yeah, but if a unionized bus driver runs you over, their union is not going to come out and say bullshit like "he threw himself under the bus" or "drivers should be allowed to drive over threatening pedestrians".

Take special care if you intend to turn left or right and give way to pedestrians who are crossing" You seem to be saying that people are shitty drivers and that we need to either just put up with it, or fit our cars to stop some careless inattentive idiot from driving into us.