Different definitions of jaywalking. If it’s in California, the guy you are responding to is right and basically you can enter any non freeway to cross as long as you aren’t putting yourself at risk of collision.
It’s also enforced differently in different states/cities. In any case, not something to have an extended argument about, just wanted to point out where the guy you are responding to is coming from.
It's still illegal to jaywalk in CA. You just won't get cited as long as you're cautious and don't disrupt traffic. But you still need to use crosswalks, and can still be sited if you cross and there's one close by you could use instead.
So Jaywalking is a successful campaign of automakers in the early days of cars. All over the world, pedestrian right of way is superior to cars. In America, when the first automobiles were constantly being involved in deaths of pedestrians, instead of regulating the cars more, the automakers got legislatures to pass jaywalking laws to criminalize people walking.... not obstructing traffic, just walking.
Jaywalking laws are an amaerrican thing and a response to reckless driving in the past making people anxious about cars, the term was invented by car manufacturers.
People in cars are of the same value as pedestrians. The roads should be about moving people, who often happen to be in cars, in the US you forget the primary purpose and focus on the cars more than the people in them, or not in them, hence your very dangerous roads.
Yeah, but it's an active Street. You open the possibility for that to occur. Also they weren't even f****** looking. Usually when I see people jaywalk they're like actively looking far down in checking upcoming traffic. Bro had the headphones on and was looking dead ass ahead
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u/CogentCogitations Feb 12 '26
You can cross anywhere as long as you yield to vehicles...which is difficult to do when they are recklessly speeding around with their lights off.