Originally Posted by
Camilo
Very nice story.
A friendly question - should you have yielded to the pedestrian? If you were a car, would you have? Just wondering what the rules and customs are. In the US (at least where I live), once a pedestrian steps off a curb, he/she has the right of way in a crosswalk in an uncontrolled intersection. Cars are supposed to stop.
None of the intersections which have this configuration are uncontrolled, and the point that he mentions wasn't an intersection. The pedestrian was jay-walking. If it was an uncontrolled intersection, you would be right.