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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 sports on the actual street was *normal*) and not stopping in time. Whatever rationale has been invented in modern times, the reality is that jaywalking was invented as a victim-blaming campaign by the car industry. Pure and simple.