Why don't Atlanta Drivers Yield for Pedestrians? (Decatur, Mitchell: neighborhoods, subdivision)

[CAWjr]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Next time, just run over the hood. I bet that'll get their attention!

Dukes of Hazzard slide across the hood or TJ Hooker barrel roll?

[StAubin]

Originally Posted by CAWjr

Dukes of Hazzard slide across the hood or TJ Hooker barrel roll?

Just a casual walk, like it was nothing out of the ordinary.

[CAWjr]

Originally Posted by AnsleyPark

The respect should be both ways, but the pedestrian needs to understand to move on out of a sense of self preservation. You don't want someone controlling a lethal weapon to lose patience. Just plain old sense.

That's the point I'm trying to make. It's not some form of weakness for a walker/runner to defer to a car, but if you want to be stubborn & play chicken, the car is going to win 99% of the time.

[CAWjr]

Originally Posted by StAubin

Just a casual walk, like it was nothing out of the ordinary.

What about a Monty Python silly walk?

[SlowDriver]

Originally Posted by Atlanta_BD

People also don't take into account that Georgia doesn't offer driver education.

Everyone when I was 15 years old was required to take Driver's Education, either as a high-school course or as a separate weekends-course for a fee, before obtaining a Georgia driver's license. People did fail the drivers' tests (getting in the car and proving you can drive) and would have to retake them, so it wasn't a gimme, either.

[GeorgiaLakeSearch]

Originally Posted by SlowDriver

Everyone when I was 15 years old was required to take Driver's Education, either as a high-school course or as a separate weekends-course for a fee, before obtaining a Georgia driver's license. People did fail the drivers' tests (getting in the car and proving you can drive) and would have to retake them, so it wasn't a gimme, either.

I don't know what the OP is talking about because it is still GA law.

Joshua's Law Explained - Department of Driver Services

[Atlanta_BD]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaLakeSearch

I don't know what the OP is talking about because it is still GA law.

Joshua's Law Explained - Department of Driver Services

What I mean is that in other states it is offered through public school and you cannot get your high school diploma without completing driver education, not that in order to get a license by 16 your parents must spend money on a course through some driving school.

In other states it is part of the school cirriculum, you start taking the class sophomore or junior year, and the high schools have class room similators, cars and driving ranges with towers for instructors to commincate to students driving on the ranges.

[atler8]

I'd like to set up shop at 14th & Peachtree which is one of the major intersections near my office & film the auto & pedestrian movement through that intersection.
It's a combination of both types of traffic acting ignorantly & willfully that makes that a troubling intersection for all.

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by Atlanta_BD

What I mean is that in other states it is offered through public school and you cannot get your high school diploma without completing driver education, not that in order to get a license by 16 your parents must spend money on a course through some driving school.

In other states it is part of the school cirriculum, you start taking the class sophomore or junior year, and the high schools have class room similators, cars and driving ranges with towers for instructors to commincate to students driving on the ranges.

I really don't understand the concept of witholding a diploma because you haven't taken a driver education course. Suppose your life plan doesn't include driving? Suppose your parents want to take the responsibility and you pass the driving test with flying colors? Another example of government overreaching.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by StAubin

I have sooooo wanted to do this.

I always think of this...and sometimes do it!


Midnight Cowboy - Im Walkin Here - YouTube