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by Meekro 957 days ago
While the UX isn't ideal, the driver's exam that everyone has to pass already covers this point -- "don't walk" flashing means finish crossing if you've already started. So the yelling driver is just wrong.

Would be nice to see cops aggressively ticketing drivers who turn right while pedestrians are trying to cross. At some of these intersections, it seems like you could just park a cop there all day and generate crazy money for the city.

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It wasn't on my driver's exam iirc and it hasn't been that long since I took it.
Wasn't on my exam either. Half of my written test was things done so infrequently/never, that it was basically a joke. We took the exam in our high school, everyone crammed the questions and answers right before the test, and only one person failed.
Your mental model is wrong. Cops aren’t there to maximize revenue or enforce the law.

Multiple police officers in multiple towns in the US have told me they can’t write tickets for every traffic violation they see or the locals would turn against the police.

They are there to tax the most egregious offenders. It would be trivial for police officers to simply wait outside bars at 01:50 and breathalyze people every night driving home drunk, but they don’t. They’d be giving out a DUI every single night if they did that.