the scofflaw pedestrians and bicyclists. But here’s the thing. We know that drivers running red lights is a massive factor in crashes that result in an injury or fatality.7 Waymo—or the artist formerly known as the Google Self-Driving Car Project—even had to program its autonomous fleet to pause for a second or two after a light turns green because actually going when the light turns green turned out to be the biggest crash risk. But the connection between safety outcomes and scofflaw pedestrians/bicyclists? It’s dubious at best. Here is Kenneth Todd in a 1992 Transportation Quarterly paper
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