tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post2725356841525460020..comments2024-03-25T17:49:41.408-07:00Comments on Salem Breakfast on Bikes: Distracted Driver in Walking Death was Initially Held BlamelessSalem Breakfast on Bikeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15618055627843335993noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-29301563737929816152017-04-11T12:36:08.558-07:002017-04-11T12:36:08.558-07:00Here's a fuller definition of autoism, for rea...Here's a fuller definition of autoism, for readers who might be curious: "<a href="http://breakfastonbikes.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-is-hydraulic-autoism-why-its-our-mobility-transportation-paradigm.html" rel="nofollow">What is Hydraulic Autoism? Why it's our Mobility Paradigm!</a>."<br /><br />Our journalists here still too often remove the driver as agent and write these stories with practically autonomous cars just as you say. "Pedestrian struck and killed by car" etc. Fortunately, there is more movement on the accident/crash shift in rhetoric.Salem Breakfast on Bikeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15618055627843335993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-41565267077543120842017-04-11T11:40:07.238-07:002017-04-11T11:40:07.238-07:00Linguistic leniency and judicial leniency go hand ...Linguistic leniency and judicial leniency go hand in hand. What you call autoism,I call windshield bias. Lots of it on display here, most notably with the driver instead of the victim being cast as deserving our sympathy.<br /><br />I'm on a Twitter campaign to call out reporting that transfers responsibility for crashes from motorists to vehicles, also a blatant form of windshield bias. "Pedestrian struck and killed by car" should be "Driver strikes and kills pedestrian." The hashtag is <b>#DriverNotCar</b>. This automatic exoneration by reporter needs to end.Betty Barcodehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14614223500937270009noreply@blogger.com