“Even if the street were entirely empty, of course, you couldn’t be sure of a safe crossing, for a car could appear suddenly over the rise four blocks further on and be on and past you before you had taken a dozen breaths,” Ray Bradbury wrote in his 1953 novel “Fahrenheit 451,” describing a dystopia in which, among other atrocities, drivers actively attempt to strike pedestrians for sport.
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times