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In many European cities it's quite common for pedestrians to pass on red (which is considered more of a warning), even in front of cop cars. I've also seen cops on foot cross the street on red.

And I've seen quite a number cross the street randomly among traffic, some of them barely able to move (old, ...)

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Same here in Boston. While I'm interested in self-driving cars if they can actually save lives, I'm not interested in restricting people's ability to walk about freely.

Also it seems that some companies blatantly lie about their capabilities and would face criminal charges if they were humans driving on public roads.

In France if there is a collision between a car and a pedestrian the car is always at fault unless it can be proved the pedestrian was committing suicide.

In the UK pedestrians have right of way.

If one deliberately jumps out on you it's obviously the pedestrians fault if you hit them. However if someone is already crossing the road you slow down and let them cross, it takes a few seconds out of a journey and you only need to break gently or just back off the accelerator.

Australia seems a different attitude. Crossing the road, they'll point the car straight at you and accelerate for being on the road, even if there's a queue of traffic a few meters ahead they are not going to get through.

Interesting. When cars first appeared the public hated them and the drivers. When a person was struck down the driver was usually convicted of murder.

That's the way to do it.

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