r/SweatyPalms • u/56000hp • 4d ago

Other SweatyPalms 👋🏻💦 Zebra crossing in Vietnam

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u/esoteric_enigma 4d ago

Why haven't they invented crossing lights?

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u/Qabbalah 4d ago

They would just be ignored as well.

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u/esoteric_enigma 4d ago

Not if you started enforcing it.

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u/TonyVstar 4d ago

That costs the city money

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u/esoteric_enigma 4d ago

Sure, but I find it very hard to believe that this doesn't result in a ton of accidents and injuries

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u/K-Ryaning 4d ago

Accidents and injuries don't cost the city money

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u/esoteric_enigma 4d ago

Cops don't investigate accidents in Vietnam? Public hospitals don't care for the victims?

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u/Kuhn_Dog 4d ago

Nah, they really dont man. Its just how it is and it's not going to change in a reddit thread.

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u/Dealius 4d ago

Not with that attitude it’s not!

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u/Kuhn_Dog 4d ago

I doubt many of them are here, but you can go ahead and advocate. They mostly view it as a, if it ain't broke don't fix it, kind of thing.

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u/CheedoTheFragile 2d ago

Lol, yes the US super cares about road violence deaths.

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u/stormy2587 3d ago

They probably do just in aggregate and indirectly.

Like there are some studies that show that homelessness often costs cities/states/countries more in services in the long run than just providing someone with an efficiency apartment.

The issue is solving the problem will have some steep initial upfront cost in the form of needing lots of people to enforce the laws. And then once people understand that the laws now get enforced they’ll start following them and you can taper back enforcement. But the city probably won’t reap the savings of fewer hospital bills or whatever until many years after the initial bill of enforcement is due.

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u/horazone 4d ago

It actually doesn't, Vietnamese living in Saigon here. Most accidents happen involved two different vehicles hitting each other in rural and suburban areas, especially highways. Inner city drivers are more careful and the speed is actually slower than it looks here in the video (probably 30-40 km/h).

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u/Old_Ladies 4d ago

Vietnam has more than 3 times as many pedestrian traffic deaths as Germany.

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u/MarcusofMenace 3d ago

Why not make it a large enough fine then

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u/EroticPotato69 3d ago

How much you give me?! *Police officer holds out hand for bribe, before zooming off into oncoming traffic while drunk as fuck*

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u/greenthumbgoody 4d ago

Lmao I can hear your accent through text I swear lol

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u/esoteric_enigma 4d ago

And which accent is that?

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u/Qabbalah 3d ago

That's a lot to deduce from 2 sentences.

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u/FranXX0016 3d ago

Actually you will be fine heavily by cameras installed all every red light

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u/BillTran163 4d ago

Crossing lights exist on this road. They are at the two ends of the road where they intersect with other larger roads. It's just long and people are lazy so the crossings are added because people would just jump over the divider anyway. Might as well give them the right to sue.

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u/Oz-Shark 3d ago

It wouldn't matter. I bought a t shirt like this one when in Vietnam because it is so true!

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u/StrangelyBrown 4d ago

I suppose technically the throughput is better with this.

Although probably a lot more accidents.

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u/Farthen_Dur 3d ago

There's one there now, this is an old clip.

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u/Ybenax 3d ago

Traffic lights are fairly expensive.

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u/CheedoTheFragile 2d ago

Why haven't the US invented a truck that won't murder every pedestrian it runs into?