yield to pedestrians?

[jims69camaro]

do you?

according to the GMAC Insurance Driver's Test (http://www.gmacinsurance.com/SafeDriving/2006/NDT2006_PressRelease.asp) lots of people ignore pedestrians in the crosswalks. scary. take the test (http://www.gmacinsurance.com/SafeDriving/2006/test.asp), pretend you are 16 again and about to take the permit test. see if you can pass. i bet you don't. it's amazing how much we forget about the rules of the road and the specifics of the laws and guidelines that are outlined in the driver's manual... 'nuff said.

p.s. National Drivers Test - Results
Your score was: 100%
A score of 70% or better is considered passing on a state written drivers test. The correct answers are highlighted below.

[Savage_Messiah]

yea i do, i figure if i hit someone my license and insurane are screwed :D

[enRo]

Do I? - Yes
Should I? - Yes
Do I want to? - No, especially the ones that dont even look both ways.

[camaro2you]

i got a 85%.

[Squirrel]

i always wave people on...just so i can stop and let more people see the car (especially when its lookin pretty)....BUT, big BUT, if people are lolly-gagging or standing in the middle of the roada distance up and not moving, i have no problem downshifting and going WOT

[WayFast84]

Your score was: 80%
A score of 70% or better is considered passing on a state written drivers test. The correct answers are highlighted below.

[Rob WS6]

Yes, I always let pedestrians cross.

National Drivers Test - Results
Your score was: 90%

[NJSPEEDER]

in cross walks i will yield, if they wanna jump out from in between cars they are on their own though.

[FBODYFirebird]

never worth the ticket I always slow down or stop if i really can't see at the blinking yellow lights

[V]

i got 95% the one i got wrong was #18 about the directing drivers on some highways... eh oh well

as for pedestrians, if they seem to be attentive and looking waiting patiently, ill stop and let them go, but if they look like asses, i make sure i'm loud to get their attention and i keep going. if they dont pay attention at all, i obviously let them go, but i stare them down with an evil look, lol

[V]

never worth the ticket I always slow down or stop if i really can't see at the blinking yellow lights

blinking yellow does NOT mean to stop, those people annoy the hell outta me.

[FBODYFirebird]

believe it or not..... in some towns they will give u a ticket if you go through when a pedestrian steps their foot on the pavement it's a hefty fine and points

[ar0ck]

In my area they are pretty strict about letting people cross in the cross walks. So yes I do stop for pedestrians.

[BigAls87Z28]

Meh...too many hours of GTA, they better have on thier running shoes, cause I dont like to use my brakes too much.

[jola]

I almost always yield, though I do hate it when they put up their arms like they control traffic. I think, I always appreciate when people are polite to me, so why not spend an extra 5 seconds and be polite to the world? Oh how I hate impolite drivers.

[Ian]

I got a 95% That just proves that I know how to drive correctly, I just choose not to :wink:

[Tsar]

95% here.

do i let people go? depends on my mood mostly.

[baddest434]

yep i yield to pedestrians in crosswalks. however the young punks who walk though the neighorhood in the middle of the street and don't move over for you then give you a wtf look. their at risk!

[Tsar]

yep i yield to pedestrians in crosswalks. however the young punks who walk though the neighorhood in the middle of the street and don't move over for you then give you a wtf look. their at risk!
ahahah that reminds me. i was coming back from work one day and i was pretty pissed. and i saw people walking across the street. well some of them saw a coming and moved quickly but there was this one wigger who just kept doing his "i just got shot in a leg" walk and kept eyeballing me... so i droped to 2nd and floored it - he moved. i get mad road rage sometimes

[qwikz28]

blinking yellow does NOT mean to stop, those people annoy the hell outta me.
im color blind. i cant tell the difference between the red and yellow lights on teh single blinking lights so i just stop anyway

[ryanfx]

I always stop for pesestrians but not because of safety reasons. It just gives me another opportunity to make a lot of unnecessary noise getting back up to speed.

[maroman88]

this one time i was on my way to work there were some younger kids crossing the street and they were in 2 groups, the first group was all girls n they got out of the way so i proceed down the street and then the second group just runs across the street and some box of crackerjacks loser from my old high school puts up his hands and yells at me to watch out, so i got as close as possible and slammed on the brakes right at his leg! i look over and theres a cop i know sittin in the parkin lot just up the block, he pulls out and stops the kid and writes him a jay walking ticket!!! oradell cops rule, i was so happy lol

[WayFast84]

OMFG!!!!! a jay walking ticket!! lol

[ryanfx]

my friend got one in princeton.. crossing the street right in front of hoagie haven :lol:

[V]

a few years back my friend was driving on a local side street and a kid ran out not payign attention and he got on the brakes hard and barely tapped the kid, but just enough to knock him over. well the kid went inside crying to my mom, My friend then had to go to court a few weeks later, charges got dropped it was all good, then as he was backing out of his spot at court, he wasnt lookign back and almost hit the kid again while walkign with his mom to their car. we all died laughing.

[GP99GT]

i stop if i see them soon enough

[Tru2Chevy]

my friend got one in princeton.. crossing the street right in front of hoagie haven :lol:

Princeton is not the place to mess with pedestrians. If they are in a crosswalk, you better damn well make sure you are stopped in plenty of time. If they aren't, they better hope that the cops are busy dealing with drivers who didn't stop for someone in a crosswalk.

- Justin

[BonzoHansen]

Screw them. Life is like that crazy taxi driver game. If they can't take the heat, stay out of the street! :-o

Actually, I try to very conscientious. I can’t afford to kill someone. I crawl through neighborhoods. I think it has to do with having kids. It changes your perspective a bit. I became that guy who yells at people speeding down the street. I also shot a street hockey ball at a kid once. But my neighbor (Trenton cop) once threw a brick through a kid’s window.

[WayFast84]

Funny storry,

The people thats used to live in my house had a hot rod pick up(verified from my neighbor, and the automeeter stickers on the garage wall. Well the kid was 16 and he only had his permit and took his dads pick up out for joy rides all the time speeding up and down the street, the guy I bought my car from, told the kid to stop speeding, he didnt, so He practiced rolling a tire down the driveway into the street, the next time the kid came he rolled it down into the street and the kid NAILED it, and got the **** beat out of him from his dad when he found out... He also ran out of gas once and my neighbor had to help him push it back to his house...

[12secondv6]

I aim for them if they walk out

[Firebird67dude]

oradell cops rule, i was so happy lol

Thats a huge negative on that one. An oradell cop threw a PBA card, that a PBA delagate gave me, right in my face. Officer says, "I dont give a **** who you know." He gave me a carelss for a "stunt in front of cool beans". Went to court and was asked what the careless was for by the judge. Told him IDK ask the officer. Officer said for his little "stunt infront of cool beans", so judge askes, "ok, what was this stunt that u did?" Told him i have no idea ask the officer. He askes the officer, officer just leaves. So i get a careless and 2 points for nothing.

[88jerseyiroc]

For one I think is the dumbest rule in the book. For one it is easy for pedistrians to see a car coming. It is easier for a pedistrian to stop short and avoid an accident then a car. Yet even when it is the pedistrians fault, we always get the backlash. It is just bull when it comes to some of the rules that the enforce. to me this is top of the list. I mean why cant pedistrians wait to cross a damn street at a light or stop sign or even when there are no cars coming. I mean most crosswalks are in a major road or intersection. Like in Ridgewood, on the main strip there are at every ****ing corner, and during the day it can get real busy and you waiting there ofr all these damn people to cross. To me it is dumb. It is just giving the pedistrians the retard card. This rule entitles them to be careless and uncaring what the outcome is. Common Sense have left the building on this one.

to add have you EVER EVER seen a pedistrians get a jaywalking ticket, Nope never but us motorists always get the ticket for not yeilding.

[jims69camaro]

if a pedestrian puts one foot in the crosswalk, you have to yield to them. the law is pretty straightforward, not a lot of interpretation can be made. you could get a lawyer and fight the ticket, but i think getting a ticket for not yielding to pedestrians in crosswalks is tantamount to getting a ticket for not keeping right on a major highway. it's just something you should program yourself to do. once you hit a pedestrian (hopefully not fatally) you will have nightmares for the rest of your life.

my only fear of driving is hitting a kid that's run out between two parked cars chasing a ball... i dread the thought of it.

[jims69camaro]

to add have you EVER EVER seen a pedistrians get a jaywalking ticket, Nope never but us motorists always get the ticket for not yeilding.

yes, several people have stated that they have seen it happen or have had one themselves. i talked my way out of one in woodbury right across from the courthouse about 25 years ago. cop was a dick, but he had a point. he was controlling traffic and that included pedestrian traffic.

thinking it's dumb doesn't mean you shouldn't follow it. i am sure lots of people think a lot of the laws are dumb. that's why most people drive completely different when there is a cop in the immediate area, too.