I pay close attention to the language and terminology used in this field, and there are a lot of terms that are unfamiliar to ordinary people—jargon, lingo, whatever you want to call it.

One, for example, is eschewing the ordinary term “accident” to refer to a car crash. There’s a whole genre of “crash not accident” tweets on Twitter, critiquing headlines that use the term “accident.” I like this one: my dad told me, when he was teaching me to drive, that there’s no such thing as an accident. That term is a sort of nicety to absolve motorists of mostly avoidable mistakes...