• 4onTheFloor@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No it doesn’t lol. You need an operator for a car to function. Cars just don’t go driving around running into people and random objects. If you get into an accident, who do they go after? The at fault driver. Not the car. It wasn’t the vehicles fault it got into an accident. It was the person operating said vehicle.

    Operator error.

    Edit: I’m starting to think most people here just don’t want to take responsibility for being stupid. Downvote all you want, drivers in cars kill people, not the car itself.

    • im stuff@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      while you are factually correct that the human is a part of the chain of blame, it is systemically inefficient to blame the driver

      in order to make systemic change and make cars safer, we CANNOT say “oh lol drivers fault, get good.” expecting that order of change from hoards of people is unrealistic.

      however if i blame unsafely sized cars, fast, wide unsafe roads, a failure of US public transport—these are also realistic points of systemic change that i can point to.

      tldr cars are unsafe, cars need to get safer, no amount of blaming the driver will solve things