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:http://www.trutv.com/shows/adam-ruins-everything/blog/adams-...Interestingly enough, their source was an article from Vox from 2007:
https://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2934608/N...EDIT: the article references the original author's work and the book (also cited as a source by the show)
http://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Traffic-American-Inside-Techn...