Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying

Re:Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying by jeromegv on Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:05PM (#21715249)

We're winning. This is absolutely crazy that 36 000 deaths a year in the USA is considered "winning". Like it couldn't get any better. Hey it's better than the apocalypse from 30 years ago, we are WINNING. If terrorism was 36,000 deaths every year you can bet this would be a big topic of conversation.

Other data to look at, shared of accidents caused by distracted driving are way way up. Perhaps if distracted driving was going down instead of going up, we would be getting much lower than 36,000 death/year

Source: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-are-you-a-dis...

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Re:Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying by ajross on Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:10PM (#21715323)

My point was that our reaction to this new problem of distracted driving should be commensurate with our reaction to the "old problems" of, I dunno, DUI or road rage or whatever. Because numerically it doesn't really make sense.

By all means let's work to reduce traffic fatalities. Let's just do it in a smarter way that "OMG phones in cars" -- I mean, how about work on better civil infrastructure choices so people aren't incentivized to drive in the first place.

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