[pjmlp]

Not sure if it is a virtue, but standing as a pedestrians in an empty street at 3 AM waiting for a traffic light to turn green doesn't make much sense either, it isn't as if a ghost car is coming out of nowhere.

It should be a matter of judgement and not following rules just because.

[zajio1am]

It makes sense as it allows to walk city streets safely on autopilot while thinking about other things.

[EPendragon]

I kind of agree. The rules for safety should be simple, straightforward, and protect you in the "edge cases", i.e. following while not paying 100% of attention, protect you with a malicious actor in mind aka reckless driver, etc. Ideally, in a system like that it should be a difficult and intentional behavior if one wanted to break the rules rather than to follow them.

[paganel]

One should not pass any street on “auto-pilot”, no matter if there’s a green light for pedestrians.

[EPendragon]

I agree. I mostly mean that it is good to strive towards a system of rules that will be easy to follow and difficult to break by default. That is an ideal case. In reality, it is never that simple.