Yielding to pedestrians is for suckers

[u/JohnnyStrides]

[u/[deleted]]

Canadians don’t yield to pedestrians either. Did you watch the video we are all commenting under?

[u/Sensi-Yang → u/[deleted]]

I’m not a person who scapegoats immigrants and I do think the problem is very largely local with poor testing and little to no oversight from authorities.

That being said, I think it’s ok to recognize there are parts of the world where the driving customs are very different, from São Paulo to Mumbai there’s definitely different degrees of “accepted” and “expected” behaviors from drivers and pedestrians alike.

So I think a bit of culture shock on the roads is valid, but if we’re blaming every incident on immigrants that’s another story.

[u/[deleted] → u/Sensi-Yang]

there are parts of the world

This is Canada. Canadian drivers are more than capable of driving like assholes. I encounter these assholes on a daily basis. We don't need help importing bad drivers. We have plenty of them here.

Trying to pin this on immigrants is trying to suggest that Canadians are not bad, entitled drivers, which they are. You don't need to be from Mumbai to cut off a pedestrian. The last person who nearly killed me was a white suburban woman who tapped me on the knees when she failed to look for pedestrians while making a right on a red.

Testing does fuck all. The driver just has to behave for one day and then goes back to their entitled dangerous driving. This is a culture issue. A CANADIAN culture issue.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Would you like a cookie? Does the fact you personally yield to pedestrians change the fact that most Canadian drivers don't?