I see the point.
A good example is drivers who roll thru right turns on red, with hardly a glance to left (let alone to their right) to see if a vehicle is coming or a ped is in x-walk. People get away with it accident free many times a day, day in day out. Maybe after 3-10yrs of doing this they pull right in front of a cyclist or into a ped using the x-walk. Many more collisions are prevented as motorist slams on brakes just before hitting someone.
A similar/related bad driver behavior is not stopping fully at stop line (before x-walk marked or not) Most often there is not a ped who is using x-walk who is hidden behind the stopped vehicle to the left of driver who doesn't stop before stop line. But sometimes a ped is moving along in x-walk and the driver who doesn't stop where they should hits them.
There are many other bad driver behaviors that folks get away with, but these two are observable in so many drivers it seems its almost become the norm.
Al