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Chesse: If we swap a car for an escaped tiger, then you see the folly. We don't punish the tiger or try and educate the tiger. And so with traffic crashes,. all we talk about is punishing the driver and educating the driver, and not controlling the harm of kinetic energy on our roads. Talk about to cut through the nonsense around transportation safety and technology.

Jessie Singer's new book There Are No Accidents has made a big splash in the road safety community and far beyond, by interrogating a word that makes most people nod and move on: "accident." On this week's episode, Singer joins Alex, Kirsten and Ed to discuss how she became fascinated with the word, the realities she discovered behind its bland façade, and what it all means.