How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”
This was covered in a very entertaining show called Adam Ruins Everything. Each episode has footnotes for the sources:<p><a href="http://www.trutv.com/shows/adam-ruins-everything/blog/adams-sources/adam-ruins-cars.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.trutv.com/shows/adam-ruins-everything/blog/adams-...</a><p>Interestingly enough, their source was an article from Vox from 2007:
<a href="https://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2934608/Norton_Street_Rivals.0.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2934608/N...</a><p>EDIT: the article references the original author's work and the book (also cited as a source by the show)
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Traffic-American-Inside-Technology/dp/0262516128" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Traffic-American-Inside-Techn...</a>