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MrBear007
I feel sooooo bad for the phone.
dumbinsults
Looks like a slef-driving Uber to me.
jesusisherelookbusy
Dannybenasty
Weirdly glad he got hit
Hexaprotodon
I think there is possibility for insurance fraud here: car with unnecessary high beams, guy on a cross-walk just standing. It's a set-up!
Compo1130
Yeah I’m thinking so too. That car in the back definitely had his high beams on.
SeriouslyAwkward
If the dude who was hit was Chinese then theres a good chance it was one of those insurance fraud scams they like over there. Drivers fucked
jhsuber
Not if they kill the victim in the accident; less penalties for death than injury.. back up and run em over a few times to be certain
SaltyInternetPirate
Dude is like a black hole. The light just bent around him as if he wasn't there, until you got close enough.
BrieflySalmon
He's just that dense.
frostpatches
Is there a camera in the hood?
Silvercypher
Yes..There are tons of cameras in the 'Hood. lol jk
underlord2132
Nasty glare
F242
lRogueShadow
Damn, that looks like it could of done some damage. hope the car makes a speedy recovery
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sargissargis
Well, he was in a crosswalk
mad4some
But he was in the crosswalk!!!.....Boggan, Munns & Munns
tomb818
Ok, stupid for being in the street w/o the sense of a deer in the headlights, but you are responsible for the front of your own car!
eddewarde
concealed by hi-beam oncoming headlights
CampEvill
Eddyrock
Holy cow! Appeared out of nowhere!
holycow360
Hello
DrunkSideOfTheMoon
I've watched it 12 times and I still can't see him from a distance
ImjurJiffer
A wild Pedestrian appears!
ThisIsAUsernameHa
RKO!
shreddedking
I'm more curious about who's shining that little sun on the oncoming traffic
shhep
Got budget dashcam, it does that in situations where you have actual visibility.
popnetic
Must of been a volvo
Volimar
He's not dead. Title is misleading.
jefferythewind
No one gonna say that he was standing in a cross walk?
SquidSquadSonar
Fuck him. Got what he deserved. Asshole. Now he'll sue the driver and win.
justgolden7
Natural selection.
mywaifubringsalltheboystotheyard
Good thing he's got that dash cam to proove he couldn't see the guy. Can't tell you how many times I've almost hit someone in the middle 1/2
mywaifubringsalltheboystotheyard
Of the street in the middle of the night. You can't see them half the time until your right there
teabagthefool
What a twat.
YesLikeWhatIDo
First is this street oneway ? Street’s line seems one connected line.
mistlefoot
Appears broken line before the cross walk, solid meaning don't pass while close to cross walk. But hard to tell 100%
BishlamekGurpgork
I'd expect parking on both sides, if not.
Thesonshade
He may have been standing, but it WAS a fucking crosswalk. He was gonna get kilt either way.
TheyCallMeTheHiphopopotamusIgotFlowsThatGlowLikePhosphorous
Who knows how long he was standing there
valen00
Could you explain this to me? Like after how long are you allowed to run them over?
MyDogIsSmarterThanYourHonorsStudent
It's not so much being allowed as it is a danger due to improper use. It's like juggling knives, that's not what they're made for and by 1/2
MyDogIsSmarterThanYourHonorsStudent
2/2 Doing so you May or may not be injured.
MyDogIsSmarterThanYourHonorsStudent
As @teamrobot said above, it was a crosswalk not a stopwalk.
TeamRobot
I too just want to help animals.
MyDogIsSmarterThanYourHonorsStudent
Yay!
ITguy314
Would have hit him on purpose
faab64
The idiot was just texting in the middle of the street?
YoudSwearImAVirgin
OUR HOUSE!
howiez1
...In the middle of the street.
trevasauruswrecks
"was"
Heavenissize17socks
No, he was texting in the middle of a crosswalk.
BannedAgainHaHa
That's not any better
TeamRobot
Yea, but it’s a crosswalk, not a stopwalk.
jeremizzle
Got em!
BecauseRonCadillacIsFrickinEpic
Hammertulski
Oooh, this is getting shamelessly stolen and used.
shhep
Well as far as law is concerned, he might as well be taking a dump there. He's on the crosswalk, driver failed to notice him.
asianmilkspray
Looks like it's in China. Crosstalk means nothing in China.
shinagami091
So if this were China, shouldn’t he have kept running him over then? Don’t want him living to have to pay his medical bills for life
asianmilkspray
Gifs that ends too early.
Cyandvai
He's also keeping pace with car in front, and you can see the car begin to 'slow' down when he comes into view, so the driver hit his break
johnvictor
I believe most places have laws about not blocking traffic as well and the fool would indeed have been blocking traffic.
valen00
Doesn't mean you are allowed to run them over.
johnvictor
Where did I exactly advocate running them over?
natabus
If a car was for some reason stopped, and another car slammed into it from behind, the car behind that does the slamming is at fault. (1/2)
natabus
We can fault the texting guy for being stupid (and he is) but responsibility for the accident is the driver's. (2/2)
shhep
He got hit while he was in the middle of the crosswalk by a car that didn't even slow down when approaching. Blocking the traffic isn't the
TheyCallMeTheHiphopopotamusIgotFlowsThatGlowLikePhosphorous
Looks like he was slowing down to me but w/e
shhep
case in this situation.
sneaker2
He was standing, not walking.
faab64
True, but he was not walking, he was just standing there, but of course it is the drivers fault
cntdn
As a driver you have to have more responsibility than a pedestrian. You can't kill someone by walking into them.
Cyandvai
good thing there's video. He doesn't even show up on the video until right before impact.
sharK11
doesn't matter, lens flare
MaxeMan5126
Lens flare in his fucking eyes.
edward8767
Lens flares only exist on video, not to the human eye. Driver should have been able to see him
solaslunas
yeah, but you gotta prove he was visible with this kind of evidence present
WhatzitTooya
Unfortunately for him, the laws of people don't cancel out the laws of physics.
LilSaint001
Might as well finish him and destroy the memory card
Gilgamech
Who knows what a self-driving car can see?
squirreltactics
Uber?
BigDaddyHall
And he was in a crosswalk. Crosswalks are programmed into the self driving cars.
valen00
Irrelevant, they look for humans always at all times.
bergamotbefriender
They only kill ppl, jeez
Ballsackhands
Some lady was just killed by a self driving car
SnowbiWan
In relation to how many people are killed by regular cars, not a bad record.
XxJackOfTradesxX
Why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
majortool
A self-driving car will stop in this situation. They rarely fail. For all the millions of miles that lead to that fatality, many, many more
majortool
fatalities were caused, not just in the time, but in the exposure in miles in driving among all human drivers. The comparison isn't even
majortool
close when you make the comparison by average length driven.
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majortool
You didn't read the rest of my comment.
majortool
Actually you didn't read my comment well at all: "... that lead to that fatality,"
jd48191
ADAS engineer here - not as well as you can. But AD veh has supplimentary RADAR and LIDAR sensors to augment the camera, & detect text dude
BoozeHound001
yeah but can the self driving car flip him off and call him a fucker?
Gilgamech
The rumor is that not all AD have all of these sensors. And that causes some crashes.
jd48191
That rumor is true.
SubzeroAK
But can it see why kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch?
punepatrol1
No I don't think it would
CheeseANDpineapple
????
SubzeroAK
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/why-do-kids-love-the-taste-of-cinnamon-toast-crunch
CheeseANDpineapple
I don’t know why my emoji of a laughing face turned into question marks!
pres2pond
Not yet. Give us a few more years to make powerful X-Ray machines portable. Then it will see. It will see all! You will all see! MUAHAHAHAHA
sneaker2
Also possible they will integrate some sort of emitter into smartphones for cars to detect. Almost everyone carries them around anyways.
jd48191
traffic system use your cell to measure traffic patterns. Toll roads use your Bluetooth signal to time your passage
RepostFromLastWeek
They already have those, 3g/4g modem, wifi, bluetooth, etc.
WontSomeonePleaseThinkOfTheChildren
Counter-point: A crosswalk with no signal lights means the driver has to make sure it's safe to pass.
Bimgler
Username checks out.
Caremono
"crosswalk" not stop and text spot.
ScoreQuest
Someone being a fucking idiot doesn't really justify manslaughter
angryson
he couldn't see the dude until he was within feet of him. 100% dumbasses' fault
daction
The tail-lights in the same lane ahead indicate this is a one-way and he isn't passing.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
^ This. Instead of an inconsiderate idiot, it could have been an elderly person who fell crossing the street, or a child could suddenly...
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
jump out from behind a car. There's a reason drivers ought to slow down when approaching a crosswalk.
PoliticallyIncorrectAndSoIsYourMom
Yeah, coulda, woulda, yada, yada... fact of the matter is: He had right of way. the crosswalk is only if clear, dont stop and text, morons.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Sorry, but that is patently wrong. On a crosswalk, pedestrians have right of way. Of course they're not supposed to just stand on it, but...
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
that's no grounds to run them over.
PoliticallyIncorrectAndSoIsYourMom
You must be an American. Welcome to the rest of the great wide world. Crosswalks only have right of way when signaled as such.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
I live in Germany,where failure to slow down at a crosswalk costs up to 120 Euro.But I checked the legal situation in the US before posting.
LordAurion
Counter counter-point: Gross tonnage ALWAYS has the right of way.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Gross tonnage always has to pay extra attention, especially when approaching a crosswalk. Because unlike gross tonnage, people are squishy.
LordAurion
That's the point. You might legally have the right of way, but the laws of physics don't care about the laws of men.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
The laws of physics are a great reason to slow down enough for an emergency brake when approaching a crosswalk, esp. when you can't see well
Blackheartedsilphy
You can be right and angry, or you can be right and dead. Fucking choose.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
The law decides what is literally right. It requires drivers to always slow down when approaching a crosswalk &, if necessary,come to a stop
Blackheartedsilphy
not even remotely my point but thanks for the response. And the law decides what is LEGALLY right. Physics decides who's right literally.
CityYeti
Counter-counter point, not everyone thinks that way. Everyone does however think standing in the middle of a crosswalk to text is moronic
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Doesn't matter. The idiot who stands in the middle of a street is not the one commandeering 2 tons of accelerated steel. He might as well...
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
be a playing child or an elderly woman who fell crossing the street and can't get up. Always drive as if there's someone on the crosswalk.
TheNonInsestuousJaime
Counter-counter-counter point, when mom texts you, you must stop everything you're doing and reply immediately or face the sandal's wrath...
TheNonInsestuousJaime
However she shall take 3 to 8 business days to reply to your texts
valen00
but... it's the law? like it doesn't matter what you think it's the law?
CityYeti
It's also the law to drive exactly the speed limit, not 5 over. Do you really think EVERYONE follows that law too
valen00
"Not everyone thinks that way" So your saying not everyone thinks you shouldn't run people over at crossings?
CityYeti
Here's what you sound like
CityYeti
But seriously, if I don't see anyone, I'm still driving. He was standing right in front of that light, and he's the moron in this situation
DuckyofDeath123
"not everyone thinks that way"? Not everyone thinks punching people after 15 pints is wrong, but it's still the law.
CityYeti
It was also the law to make sure Jews were caught in Nazi Germany
DuckyofDeath123
Is that going to be your defende in traffic court? "It was wrong to gas jews so it's wrong to prevent me fron running this fucker down"?
DuckyofDeath123
"Take your hands off me you fascist, driving down people who text is my constitutional right, attica, attica"?
CityYeti
No, my defense would be the man was jaywalking, so it's his fault that he got hit