Between the holiday season and the return of students to the university, I’m just about sick of pedestrians. I don’t know what it is recently, but a combination of smartphone use, headphone use, and the discontinued use of common sense and the “yield to tonnage” principle have almost put a full bus worth of pedestrians onto the front end of my car. I don’t want a 22-year-old art major clinging to Angry Grandpa. I don’t want them anywhere near the car. And I really don’t want to hear the yelping about how I’m the one at fault when they stepped out in front of a 4,200 pound brick that is making a healthy noise in a parking lot. It’s not like I drive a Tesla and they actually didn’t hear me. It’s not like I do forty miles an hour in the parking lot, either. And it’s not just me being cantankerous…Haley has, for years, asked for a medium-duty truck with a plow on it so that she can assist in de-populating the campus when they hit the crosswalks without looking.
Apparently Britain’s early Health and Safety people saw this problem coming a mile away. While automobiles weren’t anything completely new by 1939, many were still coming to terms with a relatively new technology and might have had the occasional lapse in judgement when crossing a road. That’s where this device kick in. Move a lever next to the steering wheel and scoop up the unfortunate idiot into a kind of hammock-looking thing. Genius! It might be viable today, except that if the person getting caught gets a bit of road rash from the rougher-than-silk fabric of the catcher, there might be a lawsuit.
One or two scoops Sir??
I’ve been a “car guy” since the ’70’s, but you’re a d*ck if you can’t look out for pedestrians. If you can’t avoid a pedestrian you are either not paying attewntion or travelling to fast.
“Yield to tonnage” is maritime, cars don’t steer or stop like a barge.
Bitch all you want, but the law will find you negligent; $$$.
Wow really????? Internet tough guy he was joking relax and in the 70s people didnt have there heads up there butts like people do today.
Only one solution to stupid ass jay walkers. Death Race 2000. Problem solved.