The title kinda says it all. It’s so annoying because there’s basically nothing stopping them. The police barely ever give out tickets for it (even though it legally warrants a fine, at least where I live), and if they get hit, it’s still the driver’s fault, because it’s never a pedestrian’s fault. If you are driving the speed limit and some guy/girl thinks they’re just going to cross the road and jaywalk cause they know you’ll \[have to\] stop anyway, I should legally be allowed to not have to slow down and hit them.

Edit: Well here I was afraid I was posting a not so unpopular opinion, looks like that wasn’t necessary. I do want to clarify this a little bit since the point I was trying to make was a bit misunderstood so I’m going to take one of the comments that summed it up pretty well:


“Depending on the situation, there might not be time to stop if someone just willy-nilly walks out into the street suddenly, yet—even in this situation—the driver would probably be ‘at fault’ even though we all know it’s not really the driver’s fault in that circumstance (just like if a deer suddenly jumps out into the road, it’s not really your fault if you hit it because there wasn’t much you could do to avoid it; same applies to a pedestrian randomly running out into the road.)” (by u/RandomPhail)


I’m not trying to say you can just run over whoever you want if they are illegally on the road, just the assholes that think they can just walk out whenever they want. Most of them don’t even bother looking at you and just pretend like they’re some celebrity that can do what they want. Having to pull a full stop could easily lead to an accident where other people get hurt, and their arrogant behavior makes me furious sometimes, especially if you drive in a large city, where the pedestrian think they are the absolute best of the best and ignore 90% of traffic laws.