23h ago

Mannheim live updates: One person dead after car drives into crowd in German city of Mannheim, police say

www.bbc.com Two dead after car drives into crowd in German city of Mannheim as suspect arrested

A 40-year-old German citizen has been arrested and there is no "political background" connected to the incident, police say.

Interestingly worded title - did the car drive itself into the crowd? No, right? Then why would they word it like that?

Anyway, more evidence to support the fact that cars are far too efficient as weapons to be granted as much free rein as they are today. Bollards save lives, implement them liberally throughout any areas with pedestrians.

Fuck Cars @lemmy.world

GissaMittJobb @lemmy.ml

23h ago

Mannheim live updates: One person dead after car drives into crowd in German city of Mannheim, police say

www.bbc.com /news/live/cwy3eeyq939t

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How would you word the title though? I think the title needs to be very neutral at first, especially when they don't have many details to tell whether it was an accident, and attack, if it was driven by a man, a woman, in auto mode, etc. I'm pretty sure they will report it as an attack if the police confirms it was.
- 'Driver hits pedestrians with car' is neutral enough.
  
  That's banished from polite editorialising for being rude to drivers, cars kill so many we'd ban them from all cities already if the press hasn't been inventing euphemisms for a century. It sometimes leaks into reporting about this new mode of vehicular terrorism. They're so objective they can't yet tell whether it's a deliberate henious act or just normal car insanity which is treated as a sad but unavoidable fact of life where the car just swerves due to conditions and stuff. Interesting to see in the wild.
  P.s. though, with self-driving systems, that title will probably be technically correct again at some point

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