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This immediately makes me think of the role attacking pedestrians played in the rise of the automobile. https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-histor
by patrickwalton 5y ago
This immediately makes me think of the role attacking pedestrians played in the rise of the automobile.
https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history
The auto companies played dirty. Maybe it's time to make it clear that they're the source of so much illness in American people and cities.
- patrickwalton 5y agoIt's like saying: ~Don't attack the tobacco companies, talk about alternative forms of recreation.~ Sure, but also attack tobacco companies. Sometimes the solution to a plague is to attack the plague.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoSee also 99% invisible’s “the modern moloch” about how much of a disruption cars proved to be, but managed to lobby the public to accept them (while being very victim-blamey by today’s standards) > On the streets of early 20th-century America, nothing moved faster than 10 miles per hour. Responsible parents would tell their children, “Go outside and play in the streets,” all day. > And then the automobile happened. And then automobiles began killing thousands of children, every year. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern-moloch/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern...
- patrickwalton 5y agoThousands of children. That's tragic. I've been lamenting children's loss of free range. I thought it was due to saliency bias around kidnapping, but it sounds like the auto companies may be at larger fault.