Jaywalking and AI Autonomous Cars - AI Trends

Being from California, I remember one of the first times that I visited New York City (NYC) and made the mistake of renting a car to get around the famous metropolis. I had figured that driving a car around the avenues and streets would give me a good sense of how the city that never sleeps was laid out and where the most notable restaurants, bars, and shops could be found. Turns out that I mainly discovered how much New Yorkers seemed to delight in jaywalking. It was as though there weren't any rules against jaywalking. Want to cut across the street and get over to that popular hangout, no need to walk down to a crosswalk, instead just make your way by walking into traffic. In most cases, the jaywalker didn't even run. One might almost think that you would dart rather than meander, but these fearless jaywalkers tended to take their time. I also found out about the techniques involved in making a devoted stare or gaze that appeared to be a local custom. In some cities, the jaywalker purposely does not make eye contact with the car drivers, seemingly acting as though the car drivers don't exist. Or, maybe by making eye contact it would become a duel to see who looked away first, and the loser perhaps has to back-down from the standoff. In any case, my experience was that the jaywalkers in NYC loved to give the car drivers a straight eye. This might be the same kind of thing you'd do when you encounter a wild animal in the woods. Given them a strong stare might say that you are mighty and the animal should not try to take you on. Some of the car drivers that were locals or that were used to the local customs would often give a stern stare back. On a few occasions, it would get really testy and the jaywalker would wave an arm and act as though they might try to slay the dragon of a car coming down the street. I admit that after I turned in the rental car and became more of a traditional pedestrian on my visits to NYC, I adopted the jaywalking habit. This was especially so because during one of my initial forays as a pedestrian there, I was walking with a colleague that was a native New Yorker, and when I attempted to walk down to a crosswalk, rather than taking the shortcut of jaywalking, he almost came out of his skin at my legal abiding approach. Are you nuts, he asked or demanded incredulously?