The auto industry started brainwashing us nearly a hundred years ago when they invented the concept of the “jaywalker,” the hapless rube sauntering into the middle of the street and engineering his own demise. Armed with this piece of propaganda, they not only defeated legislation that would have slowed cars in cities but also successfully criminalized the act of walking.
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