It’s a real phenomenon when talking about incidents involving two vehicles because you unconsciously dehumanize the person in the vehicle since you’re not directly engaging with them, but their machine, and can’t really see the person in it.

Same principle applies on the internet where people aren’t seeing a person when they are verbally abusing someone online, which makes it much easier to ignore the empathic part of our brain. At least that’s what I heard on the radio.

That being said, this one involves a cyclist so I’d just call it attempted murder too.