You should see the chaos that reigns at one of the local elementary schools. Parents double, triple, quadruple parked to drop off/pick up, parking in red zones and even more fun, parking across the street and encouraging their kids to cross a six lane road rather than walk 50 yards to a guarded crossing(lights and crossing guards). Sometimes Mom escorts the youngest themselves by running into traffic.
This.
By the fundamental laws of physics, cars win in the fight with pedestrians. You can make all the laws and post all the lights and signs and crosswalks you want, and while that will certainly help, the ultimate responsibility for not ending up smeared on the pavement lies with the pedestrian.
That’s not to say that we shouldn’t have laws and crosswalks and punish people who ignore them. But those stripes aren’t magic. The way to get safely across the street is to make sure that you don’t cross on a collision course with a car. Humans are pretty bad at judging the speed of something coming toward them. Maybe we should help educate people how to determine if they’ll make it across in time.
The problem with the educational videos is that they often wind up looking like all the educational shorts from RiffTrax, which has at least two shorts about how to be a safe pedestrian. I will say that when I have jaywalked (or crossed at an unmarked crosswalk), it always felt a lot safer if I had a decent sized raised median to stand on if needed.
You forgot part of the law.
Item 1 says the pedestrian has the right of way.
Item 2 says the laws of physics trump the laws of man. If you step out 30 feet in front of someone going 50 MPH in this particular case it isn’t the driver’s fault.
So why dont cars stop at pedestrian crossings in the USA?
What is wrong with a pedestrian crossing having a set of traffic lights on them? The hawk system seems like a new solution where you dont need one.
Do they have pedestrian crossings with speed humps?
I dont understand the problem.
Mainly pedestrians who cross in the middle of the street or cross against the light.
The op notes a person hit at one of these new crossing types. Why not have a normal set of lights instead of the new hawk system?
There’s a set of those at the corner. The pedestrians don’t use it.
One of the problems is that our pedestrian system is built as an afterthought to the vehicular traffic system. Pedestrian crossings are tacked on to vehicular crossings. Pedestrian patterns are worked in to the spaces of vehicular traffic patterns. In most cases, crosswalks and other systems were not really designed for pedestrians. They are just extras added on to a purely vehicle-based system. There is little thought given to how pedestrians will actually use them, it’s just considered enough that there is something there, even if it is not particularly useful.
A better system would look at what pedestrians need first- where they need to cross, what patterns they take on, etc. and then try to integrate that in to the larger traffic system. People don’t jaywalk for thrills. they jaywalk because the options available to them aren’t working.
Go visit San Francisco and say that again. 
People jaywalk almost entirely because they’re lazy, stupid and/or selfish.
I’ve seen jaywalkers cross in the middle of the street, disrupting traffic by darting out at the last second then continue on the other side to the corner where there is a light and marked crossing.
I look over my shoulder, but resent having to do so.
I’m in front of the right-turning driver; he/she is behind me. Why should I have to keep looking behind me, and they not look forward?
I didn’t forget jack. And what you’re quoting doesn’t contradict my assertion; to wit: pedestrians do not always and automatically have the right of way.
Survival.
Foot bridges and/or foot tunnels.
Tunnels are problematic in the OP’s state of Michigan, it’s cold there. Bridges aren’t much better.
Tunnels and bridges are very expensive to build and require ongoing maintenance. Tunnels require security. Bridges require wheelchair ramps.
I propose trebuchets, for both flinging pedestrians (trebuchians?) across the street, and for bombarding cars that do not stop for pedestrians who chose not to be flung.
Now I’m thinking a large trampoline park built on both sides of the road would work perfectly. Pedestrians, or trampolians? can simply jump across the road as needed.
So you won’t get hit?