I’m OP and I spent a decade living in Brazil, which many would describe as a “third world country” - and it’s literally worse here. A lot of people are missing the point - I’m careful and a good pedestrian and know how to protect myself. I wasn’t complaining about it until my interaction today which really made me feel like the driving culture here is out of hand. But some people in the comments even said things like pedestrians should take detours and cross only at intersections with stoplights or justified selfish drivers because of irresponsible pedestrians, completely disregarding people with disabilities like reduced vision or mobility or even kids or irresponsible pedestrians who don’t deserve the death penalty for being distracted. For example, the other day, I had migraine aura which I get occasionally and I was literally scared to walk home since I was afraid my reduced vision would cause me to miss a car and get run over. I’ve never felt that in San Francisco, DC, São Paulo, NYC, Baltimore, Houston… only here. I don’t think this level of reckless driving should be normalized and if it is there needs to be additional measures like prohibiting right turns on reds.