Comment by jcranmer

The exact kind of scenario I was thinking of is something like a driver barrelling down a road in a school zone at 35 mph and hitting a kid who ran out into the street to pick up a ball. Since you so love putting words into my mouth, I assume you clearly believe that the pedestrian is at fault here instead of the driver [1].

In the real world, pedestrians don't play frogger with highways all that frequently. When you talk about pedestrians suddenly jumping onto the road, that is usually because they are in an area where pedestrian and vehicular interaction is likely--school zones, residential areas, parking lots, etc. In those scenarios... yeah, speeding is the fault here, not the pedestrian. I thought this was an obvious consideration that I didn't need to spell it out so clearly. But it turns out that the tendency to try to shift the blame from the driver to pedestrians in every scenario is just too ingrained into people, I guess...

[1] This isn't exactly a strawman--someone here was trying to argue that the driver isn't at fault in this scenario just this past week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877232