And an eighty year-old lady in our village had a terrible accident a few months ago. She was driving a governess cart drawn by a nice horse when a huge grain lorry zoomed up behind her and hooted loudly. No, no, the driver zoomed up behind her and hooted loudly. The driver is responsible. Not just a joke - our habit of taking agency and responsibility away from drivers, unconsciously - "a car drove into a group of pedestrians", "a bus mounted the pavement", etc - also takes away our realisation that these actions are done by human beings who should be held responsible, morally and financially, for their actions.
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