{"id":12030,"date":"2015-01-25T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12030"},"modified":"2015-01-25T12:10:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T17:10:03","slug":"how-automakers-got-cars-to-take-the-street-from-pedestrians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/how-automakers-got-cars-to-take-the-street-from-pedestrians\/","title":{"rendered":"How Automakers Got Cars To Take The Street From Pedestrians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/012515_1704_HowAutomake1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back in the day the streets belonged to the people, writes Joseph Stromberg. Automakers then figured out a way to get pedestrians off the road and onto sidewalks in the United States:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the 1920s roads were places where pedestrians, push cart vendors, horses, and playing children jostled for space.<\/li>\n<li>It was the responsibility of everybody on the road \u2013 including cars \u2013 to make sure nobody got hurt.<\/li>\n<li>But as car use began to spread the number of deaths dramatically increased with the elderly and children frequent victims.<\/li>\n<li>There was a strong backlash against automobiles, made worse because people viewed them as frivolous play things for the rich \u2013 similar to how we see yachts today.<\/li>\n<li>People got organized and pushed for proposals to impose drastic speed limits on cars.<\/li>\n<li>The auto industry sprang into action, launching a counter-campaign to make roads the domain of automobiles.<\/li>\n<li>They were successful. Under new rules pedestrians could only be on the road when they were on a crosswalk.<\/li>\n<li>While there were new rules against jaywalking, they weren&#8217;t being enforced, so car makers launched a new campaign to shame people into following traffic laws.<\/li>\n<li>This included introducing the term &#8220;jay walking&#8221; \u2013 a jay back then was a term for a hick who didn&#8217;t know how to behave in the city.<\/li>\n<li>They also launched a wire service where journalists could send them details of car accidents, and the service would respond with a fully written article shifting the blame for the accident on the pedestrian.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full article provides many more insights, has some excellent examples of the ads from the campaigns of the era. It also explains why automakers repeatedly hit a clown with a Model T. Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/1\/15\/7551873\/jaywalking-history\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/1\/15\/7551873\/jaywalking-history\">Vox<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day the streets belonged to the people, writes Joseph Stromberg. Automakers then figured out a way to get pedestrians off the road and onto sidewalks in the United States: In the 1920s roads were places where pedestrians, push cart vendors, horses, and playing children jostled for space. It was the responsibility of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/012515_1704_HowAutomake1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12034,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12030\/revisions\/12034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}