Tesla drivers had 23.54 accidents per 1,000 drivers, a study found. Tesla recently recalled 2 million vehicles over problems with its autonomous driving functionality.
  • Oderus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    172·
    9 months ago

    You can intentionally crash into someone which would not be an accident but if you crash into someone not on purpose, then it’s an accident.

    • asret@lemmy.zipEnglish
      132·
      9 months ago

      Exactly, so the use of “crash” would generally be far better for these sorts of articles.

      “Accident” starts addressing intentions or expectations.

      We could just add easily refer to them as “vehicular violence” but then we’d end up distorting things in another direction.