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In France, these days, you lose your license. Period. I don't know what the results have been though, but I think it's a fairly good approach.
Man I remember when they used to take away peoples licenses in the USA. Good times. It’s like the only way you can get people to recognize that it’s a privilege and not a divine right is by taking it away.
They still do, after multiple DUI’s.
If you arent wealthy.
Sadly my youtube algorithm suggests that people with multiple DUIs have few moral qualms about driving without a license.
In NYC you'll get a ticket if you stop for pedestrian crossings. I got a ticket for stoping and letting a pedestrian cross the road.
In Illinois pedestrians ALWAYS have the right of way. So not stopping for a crosswalk is a good way to see if there's a cop lurking nearby.
Good idea to have one fall guy do that before commending a drug deal.
Good idea, but cops here travel in groups of 2 or more cars.
Which law does that break?
“Gotta fill my quota”
I was expecting this to be the "carry a brick"-trick.
Am i the only one that finds this terrifying as a pedestrian? All the people in the video had to stop when they arrived at the intersection and wait for a car to allow them to cross. If someone were crossing here unaware and started crossing immediately, this thing could hit them anywhere up to the face. And that is if it doesn't have enough force to make one loose their balance or straight up catapult them. I refuse to believe this thing is actually just active and without supervision. I think they just deployed this thing for an afternoon to get the shots and coached the pedestrians. I find this anything but brilliant
The pedestrians also walk across the actual crosswalk area, over the mechanism, showing no concern that those magic stripes could come back down and smush them at any moment. There are a handful of things that take this out of the realm of realism but for me it was mainly that—especially the lady carrying her baby under them
Yeah obviously this is a film set. That's what PSAs are, little government adverts. They didn't deploy this on the street and they're not suggesting this as a solution to a problem. It's a fun little sort of advertisement that has been created to try and make a point.
It's like the Swedish advert from the other day.
It’s a controlled film set…Every single face you see is a unionized actor, any “candid” feelings are purely manufactured for effect.
in Turkey, we pedestrians always yield to cars.
Here in Denmark I can basically just jump in front of a moving car on a crosswalk (one without traffic lights) and if the car so much as touches me they risk losing their driver's licence.
I know The Netherlands is the same like that. Not sure about other EU countries.
The French will try to run you over, and the Italians actively speed up when they see a pedestrian.
In the UK you actually do have to stop and people do even Audi drivers stop sometimes.
even Audi drivers stop sometimes.
This sounds outlandish, I'm not sure I believe you. What about BMW drivers? Don't tell me even they stop for pedestrians?
Outlandish is the idea of them using their turn signal.
"Using the turn signal is giving information to the enemy", every Audi and BMW driver ever.