How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”

Re:How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking” by IncRnd on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @01:34PM (#16160718)

> After all, these beacons not mandatory - they're only needed if you want to use the roads as a pedestrian or cyclist. If you don't, you can drive your car like any real (read: non-poor) American, or use a taxi or bus.

You just wrote two things:

1) Pedestrians and bike riders should wear beacons or aren't "real Americans".

2) Poor Americans aren't "real Americans".

Are those what you meant to write?

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Re:How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking” by geofft on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @03:03PM (#16161815)

Yes, that's what I meant to write. Note that those are not my personal opinions (as a pedestrian, cyclist, and non-car-owner, I'd like to think I'm as real an American as anyone else), but I do think they are common opinions in America.

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