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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago

Sorry to be a pedant because I do believe in Vision Zero, but the terms "traffic violence" best fits tragedies like the Lapu Lapu Festival attack and the Yonge Street Van attack. There's intention to harm using a vehicle, which is why I would consider that violence.

I still support using terms like "traffic incident" over "traffic accident" because that acknowledges the fact that street design plays a factor both in influencing driver behaviour and the severity of consequences should the driver be inattentive or incapacitated.

[–] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.” – attributed to George Orwell (link)

Similarly, I tend to think of everything that isn't independent news/analysis as infotainment (with a corporate agenda) as opposed to news. The following are US data but the figure conveys that the 'news' (infotainment) doesn't reflect reality :

https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's because one is politically charged by years of rhetoric and the other is another headline that's not looked into as anything other then an accident. A gun is concealable and that might also add to parinoids fear factor even though a car can kill just as many.

Cars are very dangerous. Should have geofencing speed limits built into them. If the GPS says that you're in Toronto, you're car should be able to go over 40km/h, or accelerate quickly.