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Interestingly worded title - did the car drive itself into the crowd? No, right? Then why would they word it like that?

Anyway, more evidence to support the fact that cars are far too efficient as weapons to be granted as much free rein as they are today. Bollards save lives, implement them liberally throughout any areas with pedestrians.

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[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

'Driver hits pedestrians with car' is neutral enough.

[–] zecg@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

That's banished from polite editorialising for being rude to drivers, cars kill so many we'd ban them from all cities already if the press hasn't been inventing euphemisms for a century. It sometimes leaks into reporting about this new mode of vehicular terrorism. They're so objective they can't yet tell whether it's a deliberate henious act or just normal car insanity which is treated as a sad but unavoidable fact of life where the car just swerves due to conditions and stuff. Interesting to see in the wild.

P.s. though, with self-driving systems, that title will probably be technically correct again at some point