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by bo1024 1601 days ago
Speaking as a city runner, you are 100000% wrong, and I have had numerous close calls demonstrating this.

If you roll through at 5.6mph while I am jogging into the intersection from your side, I will often be hidden by your A pillar the entire time right up until you hit me. And a 5.6mph point-blank hit to a pedestrian can be serious.

(edit: I have avoided these hits so far by watching people's eyes. If I can't see them see me, I stop regardless of right of way. This usually gives them a nice scare as they're rolling into the intersection and glance out their side window to see a person standing right there 'out of nowhere'. Not sure how I'll tell with FSD.)

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I will often be hidden by your A pillar the entire time right up until you hit me.

This is called a "Constant Bearing / Decreasing Range" collision.

> Not sure how I'll tell with FSD

In theory, FSD shouldn't have blind spots like an A pillar for human drivers.

But I agree with your point.

As someone who did actually get run over when running through a crossroad as a kid, I _never_ run through crossroads since then, regardless of eye contact or not.

Runners (and the much loved sidewalk cyclists) are much farther from the road than a walking pedestrian. The drivers are NOT seeing you coming.