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"Traffic Violence": The Grifters Go After Cars

I first saw this term on Hacker News.

For others, it’s confusion about the connotation of intentional harm that creeps in when we remove the word "accident" from our vocabulary — or even rage that it provokes in people who say we are not presuming innocence of every driver involved in all car crashes by default. "It's important to really change that kind of vocabulary so people don't get confused and think these things just happen and this is just a cost we pay living... in a society where we use cars." Whenever you see the deliberate introduction of a scare term like “traffic violence” for an old concept like “road accidents” (which has been tracked for decades by multiple agencies, like the OECD), you have to ask, “ cui bono?

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