The Pedestrian

Generic conventions are used in Gattaca 1997 by Andrew Nicole and the pedestrian 1951 by Ray Bradbury work to an encourage an audience to view an idea from a particular perspective. Gattaca uses visual conventions of film to influence the western audience to view technology such as genetic engineering as being damaging to society from that the perspective of an anachronistic protagonist, Vincent. The pedestrian manipulates written conventions to construct social changes caused by advances in…

The term “Pedestrian” is used to recognize the fact that the approach to pedestrian pathway development must be as scientific and systematic as the…

of the driver because the task is more manageable than ensuring the life of the pedestrian. The driver of the vehicle should be put first in this situation because ultimately it would create less casualties. If a self-driving car were to attempt to save the pedestrian, the idea itself would change the entire landscape that cars already have implemented: to save the driver inside. Selling a car that favors the pedestrian over the driver would result in people not wanting to invest in that car to…

often, however, collisions occur involving walkers or runners and motor vehicles, often resulting in serious injuries and death for the pedestrians. In fact, the New York Department of Motor Vehicles reports that 16,278 pedestrians were injured and 344 were killed in 2013 alone. While not all car-verses-walker crashes are preventable, there are things that pedestrians can do to help keep themselves safe. Obey traffic signs and signals Traffic signs and signals are meant to keep order on the…

Las Vegas is best known for their casinos, 24-hour bars/convenient stores and being the city that never sleeps. But for Las Vegas residents, it’s known as a kill zone for pedestrians Las Vegas ranked 15th of 34 major U.S. cities for pedestrian deaths with 2,500 walkers killed per 100,000 residents according to the National Highway Safety Administration in a LA Times article. I want you to understand who, what, and how we are all affected by this Las Vegas issues that is increasing rapidly. On a…

Imagine a street that no longer needs traffic lights or traffic signs. A public space that allows both automobiles and pedestrians alike to share the road. Children laugh and play in the street, pedestrians cross where they please, and cars and bikes safely drive through to their destination (Hockenos). Although this street will not work in all instances it can and has been implemented before. In the Netherlands, a shared public space like this one is called a woonerf (Biddulph). This type of…

Traffic-free and Walkability The wider street design would create barriers to pedestrian movement and limit the area for walking to encourage making motorised trip in short-distance so with narrowing the road or restricting vehicular traffic accessibility could reduce the barrier to encourage walking so the walkability catchment can…

To be sure, distracted pedestrians are not the only cause of traffic that moves at a snail’s pace. Nevertheless, texters do cause trouble in intersections, and there is evidence to back it up. To demonstrate this, researchers at the University of Queensland found that people distracted by phones walk 1.1 feet per second slower than they do when they are fully alert. Furthermore, their stride length decreases as well, making texting pedestrians significantly slower, also holding up…

current intersection we have in place is called a four-way stop where traffic is controlled by human discretion of giving the right of way to pedestrians and whoever stops first. Consequently, if there is a constant flow of pedestrians, then the cars and bikes will have to yield to all of them. This causes drivers and bikers to weave in between the gaps of pedestrians which poses a hazard. Widening the roads is a solution to traffic congestion, but would not be suitable for this situation since…

serious car crash. Car crashes can affect the people in the car accident as well as family members that are not involved in the accident. A car crash can simply ruin a person’s live or end it. When speeding it has a high percentage of running over a pedestrian. For example,…