This happens virtually every single day. Drivers in Chicago would rather commit vehicular manslaughter than wait 5 seconds for someone to cross.

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Yeah, that's the thing about the USA, there's tons of variation in how local areas do stuff like that.

My point is the minimum for this kind of thing in the USA is much lower than countries with similar wealth - purely because we don't care as much about pedestrians getting killed.

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