The move to make cars superior to pedestrians began in 1913. The first recorded jaywalker shamer—“jay” was an insult, a term for a rube, a hick, someone from the country—was none other than Santa Claus. An actor stood in front of a department store in Syracuse and harangued pedestrians to get out of the way and let cars pass. Within a decade, the car industry was coming together to change the culture in cities. When citizens in the city of Cincinnati proposed a bill that would limit the top speed of cars within the city limits, local businesses banned together to defeat it. For the first time
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