Re: No fault cell phone law

Carlos E.R. wrote on Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:14:35 +0100 :

Thus I am not reading or
commenting on what you said.

Doesn't matter. It's all been said before since we've discussed this in the
past in gory detail, where you don't remember anything that was said then.

The fact remains, everyone thinks that cellphones must raise the accident
rate simply because they're an added distraction, and they are an added
distraction - but there is no reliable evidence that they have any effect
whatsoever on the accident rate in reliably reported USA Census Bureau
Statistics.

Furthermore, the fact remains everyone thinks making laws to make people do
safe things would lower the accident rate, but again, teh reliable
scientific evidence shows thta also is not the case.

The laws have no first order effects whatsoever on safety but they do have
a minor but statistically valid second-order effect on length of hospital
stay.

This was covered on March 16, 2016 on this newsgroup, and again in even
more gory detail on July 6, 2020 on this very newsgroup, Carlos.

Morons (without a shred of evidence) disputed it then.
Those same morons (with no evidence) dispute it now.

Morons will always be morons, but the facts remain true.

The main reason cellphones have no effect on the accident rate is likely
two fold, one of which is there are hundreds of distractions. Adding one is
like adding another hair to your head. It changes nothing in statistics.

In addition, cellphones prevent accidents, so they have a cancelling effect
on the accident rate because they may prevent as many as they cause.

It's not clear why cellphones have no effect whatsoever on the accident
rate, but what's eminently clear in the reliable records is there is no
change in the downward trend of accident rates in the USA for decades.

Just like the first post-Covid should have been a superspreader event if
all the morons were correct (and it wasn't), the facts show that cellphones
do not change the accident rate (neither up, nor down) in effect.

As with the Fermi Paradox, if you feel otherwise, you have to answer this:
 Q: Where are the accidents?