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gumby · #30 (**permalink**) 10-06-2007, 05:55 PM

Unsubstantiated - I agree.

BTW, I've read every post. I usually do.
Many auto-pedestrian accidents occur at walking speed. I cannot believe you can't see (no pun intended) an issue here. You are delivering a promise that you (and all other drivers, I must presume) are so in control and alert at all times so as to not let such an incident occur. Well, then, just how do they occur? And this issue adds BLIND to the mix for the pedestrian.
If I were blind, I would not want to trust ENTIRELY on other's (drivers) skillsets in accident avoidance. Especially when we already know that autos and (sighted) pedestrians collide, occasionally.
Now if every driver did as you do: "if you're getting close enough to someone that they could get in the way, give a short honk of the horn", then maybe, just maybe, we'd have no more of these accidents. Yet they still occur, meaning something going wrong today. Even if "warning honking" became a LAW, would everyone do it? (55MPH is the max-speed law in many areas - what do you think the compliance-rates are?). The consequences of not following this common-sense rule could be far more disastrous than getting a speeding ticket.