Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015)

Re:Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015) by alexfoo on Thursday October 12, 2023 @03:03PM (#37861571)

Luckily some countries don’t think about it like this. Many European countries put pedestrians first in cities and towns.

Cars can go “quickly” between cities and towns but around pedestrians they really do need to slow down.

I wouldn’t want to live anywhere where the car is king and everyone else must cede to its ultimate priority.

People need to give themselves more time to get places, rather than thinking they are far more important than the greatly decreased safety of others.

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Re:Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015) by pixl97 on Thursday October 12, 2023 @03:59PM (#37862384)

Cars are perfectly capable of going slow...

The American mindset is not. I swear that a huge portion of people in the US have been propagandized to believe that the car is king and that any idea to the contrary is heresy punishable by death under the front bumper of a Ford F-250 jacked up 3 feet higher.

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Re:Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015) by yowzadave on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:06PM (#37862495)

Bingo--this argument (like many others) is one that doesn't require us to speculate or to invent new ways of building cities. We just need to look around the world to cities that have dealt with this problem successfully, and learn from their examples.

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