Great Example.
I think the first thing most people, (and
both of us) see is an ECV user who is constantly on a very annoying horn! Not a pleasant sound.
BUT, you see her as someone trying to push her way through the crowd and expecting people to make way for her.I see a person who is trying to stay with her other party on the ECV in front of her. I see someone who is using the horn in an attempt to keep people from placing themselves between two moving ECVs!
I know for a fact that people are CONSTANTLY stepping in front of ECV's at a busy park exit. ( Seriously, some walkers are like moths to a flame when they walk next to an ECV) I have seen them JUMP OVER the front of moving ECV's to get to a faster moving section of a crowd! The only reason IMO that you are not seeing that here is because she IS on that annoying horn.
Anyway, TURN OFF THE SOUND on the video. Now watch again and notice has she is following the path of the other ECV? She is also only moving at crowd speed. As guests coming in pass her you see at approx 0:07 someone stop in the middle of the road, but focus on the far left side and she is still at the same speed as the other guests. At at approx 012, pay attention to the people on the far left, the lady in the green shirt, still same low speed. You will see her move slightly right to avoid the two women holding hands, but once she passes them, she returned to her spot directly behind the other ecv. At no point do you see the user trying to push around people. Again, I see the horn as being used to keep people from stepping out between the two ECV'S.
(Sadly, I also think that if this woman had looked like a model, some of the people on you tube might have felt a little different about what she is doing.)
Oh dear heaven, I wanted to smack some of those pedestrians so badly. Did you see how close they were getting to her ECV? Those two ladies at the end hovering over her were far too close for comfort. When people are crowding around me that bad, I usually get whacked in the head with a purse or backpack. Nothing worse than getting whacked with someone's heavy turtle-shell backpack bursting to the gills with snacks and souvenirs.
Reminds me of the NYE I tried to get through EPCOT's World Showcase to the International Gateway after early bird fireworks. The crowd came to a standstill with people coming out and going in. No one could move forward at all. Instead people just kept getting closer and closer to each other.
I had horrible time trying to protect my joystick from those swinging backpacks. One lady rammed my hand so hard, I had to push off and let the joystick go to a "dead man stop" to save the people in front of me.
Then one particularly brilliant pedestrian latches onto the handlebars behind me and decides he's going to use me as a battering ram. "Just push through them!" he barks at me, mindless to the fact that my feet would get crushed along with all the other pedestrians he wanted to mow down.
Then whenever I had a little space around me to move, those same pedestrians filled up the gap and glared at me.
I swore off ever leaving a park during the grand exodus times. Now I wait until the crowd leaves before I move. Better to have security chase me out than get crushed to death.
Sorry but that video does not make pedestrians look good. ECV lady was doing what she could to keep moving and warn others of her presence. The last thing you want a wheelie to do in a crowd is to stay put. Then they become a brick wall people crash into.
Worst collision I ever had was in a crush like that but in front of the Castle. I was going with the crowd and trying to stay close to my dad's ECV. I had my foot touching his bumper to keep people from cutting between us. We are moving at a snail's pace, slower than the pedestrians because the pedestrians kept sucking up all the available space. Well one "princess" decides she's going to be a salmon swimming upstream against the crowd and dragging her little kid behind her. She approaches me at a diagonal and puts hee precious foot between my wheels and stops. Only warning I had was the "bump" I felt as my wheel landed on her toe. I immediately stopped and that put me unfortunately right on her foot. So I tried to get off as quickly as possible. I apologized profusely and asked about her injury. I honestly didn't mean to hurt her and had no idea she was going to approach me like that. She glares at me and chews me out for driving recklessly. I lost my compassion then.
Pedestrians need to be taught that you cannot walk that close to an ECV or powerchair. Sometimes the only way they learn is to get run over or clipped.
Reckless driving is when you speed fast into a crowd and knock people down. Honking your horn or trying to move with a crowd is normal behavior.