How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”
This is silly.<p>&gt;&quot;Ultimately, both the word jaywalking and the concept that pedestrians shouldn&#x27;t walk freely on streets became so deeply entrenched that few people know this history&quot;<p>The article makes it seem like the only reason the rules exist as they do now is because some industry players forced us into this situation.<p>No. The rules exist now because the majority of people agreed that cars should be given the road and people should be given the sidewalks, and that people darting to and fro on the street would be very bad for everyone involved.<p>Sure the car industry backed these ideas, but people accepted them because they made sense.