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

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

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

 
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.

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.

For example, the iPhone has the most exploits of any smartphone, but Apple
never advertises that fact - and so people believe in the Apple myths.
 <https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog>

Most Apple users get all their "facts" from (brilliant) Apple marketing.
Just like most people get their tire "facts" from tire advertisements.

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.

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?

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?

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!