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Shouldn't the person driving 2000+ lbs of machinery be responsible for how they are operating rather than a person trying to walk in a crosswalk?

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It is a shared space, which belongs both to cars as well as pedestrians. So the responsibility for safety is shared as well.

Typically in scenarios where it's supposedly a shared responsibility, and one is at a significant disadvantage, where errors from either side has massively skewed consequences, you often want to put most of the responsibility on the one with ability to cause the most harm.

And I don't agree with it being a shared space. In a crosswalk cars are entering pedestrian space. It's not pedestrians entering car space. But that might just be telling on what continent I live.

I think it probably matters what your preconceptions are. I don't know what continent has to do with it. I'm pragmatic. It's a place cars and pedestrians both have an expectation to be. Therefore, it's shared. We use signals to make it safer, but nobody should ever lose sight of the reality that they may find a car there, or a pedestrian there, at the same time.

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