Re: State Farm files patent for system to suppress calls and text while driving

On 6/9/24 17:31, Andrew wrote:

bad sector wrote on Sun, 9 Jun 2024 17:08:44 -0400 :
 

Most "tire ads" are bullshit. They play on emotion. And fear.

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Of course they are, and stupid people try to drive on them expecting
friction that is non-existant i.e. the ads modify their driving
behavior.

 Just as the coefficient of friction is stamped on every passenger brake pad
sold in the USA, the straightline wet/dry asphalt/concrete friction rating
is stamped on every passenger vehicle tire sold in the United States.

There is no such thing as "the" coefficient of friction because that varies with conditions. The advertised one is under specified conditions only but it will vary almost infinitely with the JBI index applicable under the environmental variables.

How many of your accident reports cite tire ads as the cause?

 My main point about advertisements was only that most people believe in
myths because advertising is the only information they get about things.

And my main point with tire ads was that misleading ads adversely modify driving behavior, serving as an example of how cell-phones do the same.

Everyone watches tire ads yet there seems to be no increase in accident
rates. Accidents and rate changes MUST be correlated else they are just
statistical noise plus no one will admit that they were on the phone
just before an accident and most won't even be aware that 500 feet
earlier they were hydroplaning because they weere on the phone which
they will deny anyway.

 If you're trying to say that the astronomical increase in accident rates
that you predicted from cellphone use was somehow covered up in the
numbers, then all you're really saying is you believe in every myth.

You are the only one who brings up accident rates, everyone else or at least most others talk about cell-phones being dangerous regardles of accident rates.

Think about this observation before you respond with more myths...
 Given cellphone use in vehicles went from 0% to almost 100% in a meteoric
rise in just a handful of years, why does the accident rate increase that
you predict show a _decrease_ in accident rate over that same time period?

Do you have evidence that without cellphones the accident rate would not be in a nosedive so that even a steady rate could well hide monumental cell-phone causality?

If your claim is that "something else" was as astronomically high during
EXACTLY the same time period (including levelling off at EXACTLY the same
time), then what is that "something else" please?

I do not claim anything in term of accidents or accident rates, what I do is express the not at all humble opinion that hand-held or bluetooth cell-phone use while driving is very dangerous and should be totally outlawed or very strictly limited.

The fact is most people are incredibly stupid in that they believe myths.
Their entire belief system isn't backed up by even a _single_ fact!

The myth is that with tire brand X you can drive in a continuous drift and on walls, and that cell-phone or visual display use while driving is as safe as being focused and on mental high-beam every minute while driving. THESE are the myths.