Pedestrian education is an industry sponsored way to put the blame for tragedy caused by bad road design and bad car design onto individuals.
People wouldn’t need to step off the curb if roads were designed to allow them to cross more than once every mile. They would need to step into traffic if roads had frequent under or overpasses rather than just zebra stripes.
There’s a great podcast episode here [0] covering the history of companies shifting the burden of safety from themselves to individuals and convincing regulators to do the same.
> “Listening to music was not associated with higher crash risk.”
> “‘Distracted’ pedestrians were more likely to cross with the light and use the crosswalk.”
> Pedestrian risks were highest in several metropolitan areas of Florida “that are known more for their inhospitable streetscapes than their distracted walkers.”
People wouldn’t need to step off the curb if roads were designed to allow them to cross more than once every mile. They would need to step into traffic if roads had frequent under or overpasses rather than just zebra stripes.
There’s a great podcast episode here [0] covering the history of companies shifting the burden of safety from themselves to individuals and convincing regulators to do the same.
> “Listening to music was not associated with higher crash risk.”
> “‘Distracted’ pedestrians were more likely to cross with the light and use the crosswalk.”
> Pedestrian risks were highest in several metropolitan areas of Florida “that are known more for their inhospitable streetscapes than their distracted walkers.”
0:https://citationsneeded.medium.com/the-great-neoliberal-burd...