Advice from an experienced driver

When I graduated from motor school 30 years ago and got my driver’s license, my uncle once asked me:
Do you know the traffic rules well?
I say :
Of course, I learned everything.
Then he says:
“Well, let’s say you’re driving on the street, and suddenly a pedestrian is appearing in front of you. What will you do?
I slow down, I found it right away.
You can’t, the speed is too high.
Then I will embrace him.
How will you go around it, from which side?
I begin to remember the points of the PDD, but I can’t remember anything and I understand that there is nothing said about it. Then I say:
If it is closer to the right side, then I will circle it to the left, and if it is to the left, then to the right.
But my uncle was also not a lick, and says:
He is right in the middle of the road!
Then I thought again and said:
“If he goes from left to right, I will circle him to the left, and if he goes right to the left, I will circle him to the right. It is the easiest way to break up with him.
But my uncle disagrees:
– And suddenly, when he suddenly sees a car driving on him, he gets scared and runs back? Right under the wheels.
Then I say:
It is dangerous to travel in the back, and even more dangerous in the front. Maybe go straight to him, let him save himself as we want, run somewhere, at least to the left, at least to the right.
The Uncle:
What if he suddenly falls into a stupor and stays still? This is where you will drown him.
I say :
What to do?
Finally, he gave the correct answer:
It depends on who the pedestrian is – a man, a woman or a child.
When you see a car approaching, the child always runs forward, where he went before. It should be driven from behind. And a woman usually runs backwards, so she has to run around in front.
And the man?
A man stops and looks at which direction the car will go in order to jump back in the opposite direction.

During the following years of driving I have been convinced many times of the validity and faithfulness of this rule.

by G. Bardakhchyan