> Which has approximately zero to do with the anthropomorphization of the car itself.
You don't think people talking about the car doing things has anything to do with anthropomorphising the car?
You don't think people talking about the car doing things has anything to do with anthropomorphising the car?
> avoid changing any of the circumstances that cause the behavior
The normalisation of unsafe driving is the circumstance that causes the behaviour. Just look at how the cultural shift in how drink-driving is perceived over the last few decades has changed the rate of it happening.