To the op, did you see the pedestrian near the edge of the road as you approached? Did you slow down in case they stepped out? No then your at fault.
At fault for what exactly?
so I just managed to stop
To the op, did you see the pedestrian near the edge of the road as you approached? Did you slow down in case they stepped out? No then your at fault.
so I just managed to stop
AlaninWales wrote: What has changed is simply the expectation that they should be confined to the sidewalk, which expectation comes largely from the society which uses that expression for footways, the same society which spawned the expression "jaywalking" to describe stepping into the road with little regard to vehicular traffic. Expecting pedestrians to keep out of your way to allow your faster progress is as arrogant now (whether you are motorised or not) as it was when the only people with that expectation were the aristocracy.
661-Pete wrote: Do I detect a nuance of anti-car rhetoric, in some of the answers here?
We need to not blame victims
meic wrote:To the op, did you see the pedestrian near the edge of the road as you approached? Did you slow down in case they stepped out? No then your at fault.
At fault for what exactly?so I just managed to stop
Ah! I took his post as having performed an emergency stop from his normal speed, which having to do that annoyed him. He never actually did that because he said he slowed down before the incident. A classic case of me skimming through a post because it initially came across as a "a guy caused a delay in my progress thread so I'm annoyed and venting on a cycling forum among friends who will agree with me about how wrong they were" sort of thread. Sorry!
BTW it's the person who's at fault not the inanimate object that is the mobile phone. Such ppl are the menace not the phone. Correct and safe use of a mobile phone is definitely possible so it is how the operator uses it that is at fault.
amediasatex wrote:At least if you see someone with earphones in you can make the judgement that they might not be able to hear you and adjust your behaviour and expectations accordingly if necessary, but deaf people don't wear labels.
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The thing about earphones as opposed to deafness is that (short of serious tinnitus) deafness is not as actively distracting as listening to music/speech or worse, being on the phone.
We all know the driver did this not the car.