This is not even close.
Heck, pick any one negative impact of drinking alcohol at parties (impaired driving, or long term health effects, or impaired judgment, etc) and that individual impact would probably be orders of magnitude worse than the total negative impact of dropping hats.
Lethality dangerous
If we’re going to call something dangerous, we should probably have actual logic and data to support that claim, right?
As you seem to be massively misinformed:
> Distracted driving is dangerous, claiming 3,308 lives in 2022
> What Is Distracted Driving?
> anything that takes your attention away from the task of safe driving.
https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving
Now obviously having a hat land on a windshield and actually block visibility would be worse, but catching something falling out of the edge of your vision especially something odd like a falling hat would easily qualify.
It’s also distracting pedestrians and so likely to result in other injuries.
I am not "massively misinformed". I'm asking a person making a ridiculous claim (a hat falling from the sky will kill you) to support their claim.
I'm seeing no mention of hats in your linked information. Please share hat related injuries, as that's what we're discussing.
“Several properties of visual stimuli have been shown to capture attention, one of which is the onset of motion.“
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-018-1548-1
> I am not "massively misinformed"
Your ignorant response proves otherwise.
Clearly you don’t want to see, but you lost the argument anyway.
Some basic advice, if you don’t want to come off as a fool try actually responding to an agreement as presented. You may still lose, but at least it doesn’t look like you’re hiding.
I suspect that, if the notion of a hat falling 20 feet out of a window terrifies you this much, you’ve probably not engaged much with real people or the world around you, such that I wouldn’t really have expected anything different. Glad I was not wrong!
Yet, again demonstrating you didn’t understand even the title of the article. As you clearly failed to read there in an ‘s’ at the end of “hats” at the top of the article. In this context that s means repeated hat drops.
Summing up for a simple mind. Research shows falling hats distract people. Article showing intersection means drivers would get distracted. Research showed distracting drivers risks killing someone else.
So with multiple events each risking killing someone taking place risk gasp increases.
PS: It’s also illegal, but that’s a secondary concern.
_Some_ hats? gasp. The horror!
Go outside.
You're so lost in the forced fake universe and viciously defending it digging even a deeper hole for yourself I wonder if you even remember how to walk.
Let's say 0.001% of distracted driving accidents are caused by falling hats. That's way less than one death a year. Now, DUI deaths don't just dwarf that but make it seem nonexistent which it basically is. If you stretch this to the extreme you could consider heavy snowfall to falling hats, but hundreds of hats falling around you all the time to the point they reduce your vision greatly. But even at that point alcohol is more dangerous. And at this point you linking some paper will just make you seem more deranged considering the kind of leaps you're making to try to stretch some academic reference to this theoretical question.
Please go outside.