A new study has found a significant correlation between U.S. drivers who don’t yield to pedestrians and the value of their car.
According to the , drivers with more valuable cars are less likely to yield to pedestrians. Out of 461 drivers in the study, 28 percent yielded to pedestrians at a crosswalk while 72 percent failed to do so. Of the 72 percent of drivers that didn’t yield, their average car value was nearly $2,000 more than those who yielded properly.
An odds ratio of 0.97 and p-value of 0.03 show that the odds of yielding decreased by roughly 3 percent when the car value increased by $1,000.
