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The Real Reason Jaywalking Is A Crime (Adam Ruins Everything)

Dropout · comedy · Watch on YouTube

Transit, cities & urban planningSatire & parodyLaw, policing & justice

What it is

An Adam Ruins Everything segment claiming that jaywalking became a crime through campaigns by the auto industry. It is a short, comedic history of how streets were reclaimed for cars.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN uses it as shorthand for the argument that car dominance was manufactured by deliberate propaganda.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “I rarely recommend videos but this one in re: Jaywalking is funny and informative”

    Funny, informative account of how jaywalking was criminalized

    carapace, 2020-12 · Recommendation · in “Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime”

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Topics: jaywalking, car culture, urban planning, propaganda

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