Originally Posted by
Lightning Pilot
Those machines are just so much potential scrap metal without the people operating them. The people are the dangerous element. No weapon ever kills without human interaction, no tool causes death or injury without human interaction. It is, indeed, simple. A simple truth that most are uncomfortable with. We, and only we, are responsible (oh that word!) for whatever happens with a tool of any kind that is under our control. Anything else is fiction.
Though, it is an interesting observation to note that a typical cyclist death news story (in NYC we've had quite a few) headlines will be along the lines of "Cyclist killed by truck" -- and not "Cyclist killed by John Doe who was driving a truck". Not sure if it's a media bias that indeed more often than not, takes the human being out of the offending act.