Or:
“Emergency services were called after some numbnuts who won their driving licence in a local church raffle managed to roll their car in a car park and then failed to climb out of either the boot or the two large improvised sunroofs they’d created.”
https://t.co/hHaage2WLQ
Maybe it had drunk too much petrol. It’s the time of year for office car park Christmas parties, after all. One too many litres at the pump and the next thing you know you’re punching holes in shops because that Mini you were trying to chat up snogged the big new BMW instead.
This was the scene at JD Sports in Sheffield a little earlier after a car smashed into it in the early hours of this morning, leaving the store "trashed": https://t.co/0sFcyDv2NT
What an honourable car. Having a person collide with you and then die is a traumatic experience for any piece of machinery, but a less morally robust model could have fled the scene. You did the right thing and you are a shining example to other inanimate objects.
There is of course the possibility that the reporter wrote something sane (ie ascribing agency to the human rather than the inanimate object) and then a subeditor noticed that this was against editorial policy, and changed it, but failed to do so fully.
I wonder if @absentdriver can shed any light. Does assigning gender to the car help or hinder the absolution of the driver?
#driverless#AutonomousVehicles
https://t.co/4UrDl1kbpH
The framing effect is one of the most basic and most effective forms of influence available to the media. Here’s the @seattletimes employing it with precisely zero subtlety.
https://t.co/G21Os6Hpz4
@DewilliamsMatt You claim that “the difference is meaningless” as if it is inherently true. I would argue that it’s absolutely not. The two examples are different, but that difference is not meaningless, and anonymity certainly does not mean there is no influence.
@DewilliamsMatt @pro_elbows @coconutlulz @AxleRyde @philatfawley @TwoWheeledAndy@Hackneycyclist@BBCSpotlight @Brick_Safety Oh, well, if—as that tweet implies—this is in your eyes a “me vs you” debate rather than an “is there an influence effect from widespread disparity in the reporting of parties in road collisions” debate then it’s doomed to futility. Have a good evening.