Daily Mail anti-cycling headline

[growingvegetables]

Almost tempted to wander up to the newsagents, and see how whether the Sunday Heil and its ilk report this - "Drivers who kill will now face life sentence". With the same lurid headlines, pictures, emotional blackmail, detail, and statistics?

I shall resist - not sure I can stomach the "punishing the hard-pressed-motorist" shite.

 

[numbnuts]

Almost tempted to wander up to the newsagents, and see how whether the Sunday Heil and its ilk report this - "Drivers who kill will now face life sentence". With the same lurid headlines, pictures, emotional blackmail, detail, and statistics?

I shall resist - not sure I can stomach the "punishing the hard-pressed-motorist" shite.

Yes they did - I think we will need more prisons
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4981248/Killer-drivers-face-life-sentences.html

 

[growingvegetables]

Yes they did - I think we will need more prisons
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4981248/Killer-drivers-face-life-sentences.html

Ferkin' 'ell. And two of the photos? Charlie Alliston and Kim Briggs.

 

[gaijintendo]

I guess the bias extends to autonomous vehicles.

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...ter-las-vegas-launch-truck-autonomous-vehicle

A truck reversed into the autonomous bus. And there are phrases like "Before it crashed". Crash isn't sufficient here. I am sure more than half of the people who would have reversed, probably wouldn't have. If they had, what would the chances of them safely checking behind themselves in the split second.

Other headlines are more direct. Endaget reports "Las Vegas' self-driving bus crashes in first hour of service"... Chopping a further hour off, for what it is worth.

People don't seem to be able to express things well. Myself included. I just don't happen to be a journalist.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The bus would have been able to safely reverse as it has 360 sensors to know what was behind it.

 

[gaijintendo]

The bus would have been able to safely reverse as it has 360 sensors to know what was behind it.

My point was more, it's not necessarily what a driver would do. If a driver didn't reverse, just as in this case, it isn't the struck drivers fault.