People forget that humans used to own the road. Sure there were horses and carts, but the horses were self driving and went around you if they weren't going too

People forget that humans used to own the road. Sure there were horses and carts, but the horses were self driving and went around you if they weren't going too fast. Children used to play in the street, or at least the less busy back streets. It has really only been since the 1920s or so that humans got shoved over onto the sidewalks, or left out of the road planning entirely. A return to road traffic that deferred to pedestrians would simply put us back where everyone was in the zeroth through nineteenth centuries.