The Vehicle Lost Control

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Apart from the strange double-error in syntax (“Wilson Ave. is remains closed both directions”) in this story from the Toronto Star, we are faced with the news that “a single vehicle lost control”.

How odd that we never hear of two vehicles losing control.

Odder still, I thought that vehicles were not the sort of device that exercised control.

I thought that was why we had drivers, to control devices that were of themselves incapable of control; their title “auto-mobile” notwithstanding.

Have the machines taken over?

Or in both my examples, have humans relinquished control?

See also “ Three seriously hurt in separate vehicle accidents ” in which, once again, we are told that “a vehicle lost control on McLaughlin Rd. south of Mayfield Rd.”,

Once again, vehicles don’t have control, so they can’t lose it. Humans have control.

The insidious transfer of responsibility to the vehicle is not helping people come to terms with responsibility.

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