Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: also, please don't take HN threads further into flamewar! as you did below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38477500. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

That's pretty antisocial behavior. Humans walk, humans drive cars, and we have good reasons for both modes of transportation. Crosswalks are an attempt to allow coexistence safely.

Antagonizing people who are using a different mode of transportation at the moment does not seem helpful at all. You may even cause other people to become accustomed to seeing crosswalk signals activated for no reason, reducing their attentiveness and increasing the risk of injury to people actually crossing the road.

Same. Slowing down traffic is an inherent good, whether or not you have any intention of crossing.

Not a big fan on the reliance of cars either but doing this wastes energy and contributes more to pollution.

This is a perfect case of thinking you are doing a net good, but in actuality just doing more harm by pissing a lot of drivers off and potentially causing a road rage incident. Do this in a large northern city and you may even get more than what you bargained for.