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  >Isn’t that why jaywalking is a crime in the US? No. Jaywalking is a crime because auto industry propaganda literally invented the term "jaywalking" ("jay" basically means "Hick* or " country bumpkin") and pushed it in part of a big media campaign in the, IIRC, 1920s, and then lobbied to make illegal. Before then, everyone blamed the cars for murdering people by tearing down the streets (which belonged to *people*, not cars, before cars existed - playing s...