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I’m walking here!’: jaywalking legalized in New York City | The Guardian
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"Jaywalking" being a crime is such a fundamentally brainrot thing
The law here in Brazil, not that anyone follows it, but it basically follows the logic of "the smaller you are, the more of a right of way you have". I.e. theoretically, a car should ALWAYS stop or slow itself to save a pedestrian or cyclist or even a motorcyclist
.... Again, not that anyone follows it, but it IS on the paper.
That's the same logic in the US. Except everyone yields to animals, because you can't tell a horse or a mule not to trample that person who walks next to them
It would be nice if this was followed but the reality of the world is the opposite. It's right of weight, not right of way.
the term used here is "vulnerable". Vulnerability gives you priority