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I am roughly equally delayed whether I'm the leading or trailing car in a rear-end collision. It is the fact that contact occurred (and the subsequent checking
by sokoloff 3y ago
I am roughly equally delayed whether I'm the leading or trailing car in a rear-end collision. It is the fact that contact occurred (and the subsequent checking on other occupants and exchange of information) which has delayed me, not whether I was an active cause or passive victim of the occurrence. The person who was waiting on me was inconvenienced by my lateness and I'm explaining the proximate cause of my lateness. Whether I was at fault or not is, in the vast, vast majority of cases, not relevant or of interest to them.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoYes, but you could apply that reasoning to a coffee mug incident too. It would still be unusual to say "I was involved in a coffee mug containment breach" rather than "I dropped my coffee mug" or "The cat pushed my coffee mug off the table". It's a sign of motornormativity that we use different language for road traffic collisions as they have become so commonplace that they rarely even make the news. Everyone knows what a "car crash" is, but a "coffee mug crash" is not in common usage.