[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by Locke

I've said it before, if you want to reduce or eliminate pedestrian accidents then you need to breed better pedestrians.

Ah, another victim of the ancient propaganda of Big Auto.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26073797

Another ruse was to provide local newspapers with a free service. Reporters would submit a few facts about local traffic accidents to Detroit, and the auto industry's safety committee would send back a full report on the situation in their city.

"The newspaper coverage quite suddenly changes, so that in 1923 they're all blaming the drivers, and by late 1924 they're all blaming jaywalking," Norton says.

Soon, he adds, car lobby groups also started taking over school safety education, stressing that "streets are for cars and children need to stay out of them". Anti-jaywalking laws were adopted in many cities in the late 1920s, and became the norm by the 1930s.