She was crossing at an intersection, but was apparently not in a designated crosswalk.
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London (CNN) -- A striped crosswalk in London entered the history books Wednesday for a second time.
She is already halfway across the four lanes of traffic before other pedestrians begin stepping down from the crosswalk.
At the corner, Suchen paused, waiting for Walter to step into the crosswalk first so that she could choose another direction.
It is most useful for seeing sharp contrasts, such as the painted white line of a crosswalk on a dark road.
In the year-old surveillance video, she steps out into the crosswalk and peers around a bus to see whether she can go.
Perhaps there are stop signs but no lights and no crosswalk.
Pedestrian traffic, often mothers with young children, is forced to navigate through this mobile labyrinthe, with nary an illuminated walking man or crosswalk in sight.
He might have been able to swerve left to avoid him, but the first witness who clearly entered the crosswalk very early left that path blocked.
Earlier this year, New York State Senator Carl Kruger reintroduced legislation to ban the use of electronic devices, such as cell phones and iPods, while navigating a crosswalk in Manhattan.
Drivers with shinier, newer, and more expensive cars were more likely to cut off other motorists at a busy four-way stop and less likely to yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk.
Several motorists made left-hand turns zooming over the crosswalk.
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Bucchere was going far too fast, but he may have run a very late yellow rather than a red, a mistake made worse because of the pedestrians entering the crosswalk very early.
The nearest crosswalk is a half mile away.
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To test whether aging reduces the ability of pedestrians to multitask, Neider and his colleagues created a simulated crosswalk using a self-powered treadmill, video screens depicting a busy street, and special goggles that create the illusion of virtual reality.
The first is the fact that city planners would place a bus-stop nearly half a mile from a crosswalk and not expect people to jaywalk to get to the other side of the street where their homes were located.
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The prosecution also repeatedly played 30 seconds of surveillance video taken from a bar on the corner of Market and Castro where the accident occurred, which showed from two perspectives pedestrians entering the crosswalk and then Bucchere plowing into one of them.
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One more thing: if the best news we're getting on the environmental front is stick-on solar fans, it's sad we're not seeing the same emphasis on making cars, trucks and SUVs that are kinder to the lungs of millions stuck gasping at the crosswalk.
Using a series of sensors, cameras and servos the car is able to turn the steering wheel plus activate the throttle and the shifter to navigate across this stretch of road, relying on the road markings painted on the floor to both keep it driving in a straight line and to have it stop, respectfully, at the crosswalk.
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