It would be less inconvenient than what I already have to do to avoid being killed by human drivers. Getting to the other side of a street according to regulation procedure can easily require taking a 10 minute detour. It can be worse than that in the suburbs.
I suppose this differs depending on location and what your perspective is. Here, it can be quite a chore for human drivers to avoid killing pedestrians. They'll just wander out across the crosswalk, nevermind that their walk-light is red, and proceed leisurely across without a care for the speeding traffic (that has the right-of-way to begin with).
To say nothing of drunks.
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Anecdotally, I do also remember, as a pedestrian, waiting for 10 minutes or more in subzero temperatures at an un-managed T crossing (crosswalk but no lights), waiting for an opportunity to cross. Traffic just kept coming and coming from all directions; this was a frequent problem at the time of day I needed to cross. I suppose there's opportunity for improvement on both sides.
