&quot;If your ultimate goal is to stay alive, then the burden of care is on YOU.&quot;<p>This is theoretically true in all of life, so it&#x27;s kind of a vacuous and IMHO not very useful point.<p>IE if someone doesn&#x27;t stop when you have the right of way, it doesn&#x27;t make you any less dead when they run you over.<p>Realize the reason the law exists is precisely to force the burden back onto homeowners, and that is in fact, the likely outcome.