Yep, turns out that's the sorta shit you have to deal with when operating a motor vehicle.

Is your bar that the environment should adapt to the tech rather than the other way around? If so, I’d encourage you to take a course in human factors engineering

*runs into a stationary median which is literally bolted into the road, in broad daylight

Have you seen the aerial pictures of the area? There's pretty clearly a path through the median that's inviting pedestrians to cross there.

*in the dark, on a highway