Jaywalking: How the car industry outlawed crossing the road

"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle) 02/18/2014 at 16:40 • Filed to: None

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"The idea of being fined for crossing the road at the wrong place can bemuse foreign visitors to the US, where the origins of so-called jaywalking lie in a propaganda campaign by the motor industry in the 1920s."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-…

JustWaitingForAMate > MonkeePuzzle 02/18/2014 at 16:41

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I don't mind if people jaywalk. As long as they don't mind me running them over when they give me 1/10 of a second warning time to dodge them.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > JustWaitingForAMate 02/18/2014 at 16:44

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what about those heathens that press the button then walk anyway so everybody has to sit there like arseholes waiting for the lights to go green?

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > JustWaitingForAMate 02/18/2014 at 16:45

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That's my problem with it as well. No point in jumping in front of a car doing 60 kph (the speed limit on most brazilian avenues) and expecting it to stop, it's physically impossible.