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    Post The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"

    The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking". Today, if there's traffic in the area and you want to follow the law, you need to find a crosswalk. And if there's a traffic light, you need to wait for it to change to green. Fail to do so, and you're committing a crime: jaywalking. A hundred years ago, if you were a pedestrian, crossing the street was simple: You walked across it.

    The fact that it is illegal to just cross seems part of the basic nature of roads. But it's actually the result of an aggressive, forgotten 1920s campaign led by auto groups and manufacturers that redefined who owned the city streets."In the early days of the automobile, it was drivers' job to avoid you, not your job to avoid them," says Peter Norton, a historian at the University of Virginia and author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City. "But under the new model, streets became a place for cars — and as a pedestrian, it's your fault if you get hit." One of the keys to this shift was the creation of the crime of jaywalking.

    Here's a history of how that happened.


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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking". Today, if there's traffic in the area and you want to follow the law, you need to find a crosswalk. And if there's a traffic light, you need to wait for it to change to green. Fail to do so, and you're committing a crime: jaywalking. A hundred years ago, if you were a pedestrian, crossing the street was simple: You walked across it.

    The fact that it is illegal to just cross seems part of the basic nature of roads. But it's actually the result of an aggressive, forgotten 1920s campaign led by auto groups and manufacturers that redefined who owned the city streets."In the early days of the automobile, it was drivers' job to avoid you, not your job to avoid them," says Peter Norton, a historian at the University of Virginia and author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City. "But under the new model, streets became a place for cars — and as a pedestrian, it's your fault if you get hit." One of the keys to this shift was the creation of the crime of jaywalking.

    Here's a history of how that happened.


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    The first person killed by an automobile was Bridget Driscoll (UK), who received fatal injuries when she walked into the path of a car moving at 4 mph (6.4 km/h), as it was giving demonstration rides in the grounds of Crystal Palace, London, UK on 17 August 1896.

    Bridget Driscoll was about 44 years old, and the car belonged to the Anglo-French Motor Car Company.
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