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  • Edit: See edit at the end. I was working on incomplete information.


    Looked it up, and here’s what Illinois traffic law has to say:

    A driver must come to a complete stop (and yield):

    • When a pedestrian is in a marked crosswalk [notably, this one is marked as a “zebra crossing”].
    • On school days, when children are in close proximity to a school zone crosswalk.

    So you technically don’t have to stop until a regular pedestrian steps into the crosswalk, but once they decide to enter, you have to stop your shit.

    Additionally:

    A driver must yield:

    • When a pedestrian is in an unmarked crosswalk on the driver’s side of the roadway, and there are no traffic control signals.
    • When making a turn at any intersection.
    • When making a lawful turn on a red light after coming to a complete stop.
    • After coming to a complete stop at a stop sign or flashing red signal at an intersection.
    • When a pedestrian enters a crosswalk before the traffic light changes.
    • When a pedestrian walks with a green light, to a “walking person” symbol or to a “walk” signal.
    • When a pedestrian leaves or enters a street or highway from an alley, building, private road, or driveway.
    • When a pedestrian enters an intersection with a flashing yellow arrow.
    • To a person with disabilities, including physical, hearing and visual disabilities.

    Only the last person was driving illegally, but I think the other people who didn’t stop were being dicks.


    Edit: I dug further (i.e. into the compiled statutes and not just a handbook) and found more:

    Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk or at any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle.

    So actually, the second-to-last car was violating traffic law too. The other two could be debated given the middle car wasn’t yet “stopped”, but it sure was still a diiiiick move.








  • I’m guessing this means you got your master’s before transformers made sequential data processing so parallelizable that it’d be commercially viable to let Bob down the street into the “we” who wouldn’t be dumb enough to give them that ability.

    I think your assumption was reasonable.