#robotcar: A journalistic writing style that anthropomorphizes automobiles or hides the fact that a human was operating an automobile involved in a crash.

The new term:
COWARDD, or (C)hoosing (O)bscuring (W)ords (A)bsolves (R)esponsibility of (D)eadly (D)riving.

Thank you to Gary Kavanagh for devising it.

For examples of #robotcar, see these articles on Grid Chicago.