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.
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.