Re: Colorado hands-free driving law taking effect in the new year

On 2024-12-11 09:13, Andrew wrote:

David Yurman wrote on Wed, 11 Dec 2024 07:51:04 +0100 (CET) :
 

Beginning on Jan. 1, 2025, Colorado drivers will no longer be allowed to use a mobile electronic device while driving unless they use it via hands-
free accessories.

 Notwithstanding the police and fire vehicles have tons of electronics in
them and they're not hands free, the fact that most people can't comprehend
(because they simply guess at everything is there is no reliable scientific
evidence that the use of cellphones in the USA in vehicles had any effect
whatsoever (up or down) on the reliably reported accident rate over the
period before cellphone ownership percentages skyrocketed, during the
period where cellphone ownership percentages went from 0% to nearly 100%,
and afterward, to today.
 The accident rate, as reported by the US Census Bureau, which has been
reporting these figures accurately since the 1920's, shows no effect.
 Actually, the accident rate has been slowly trending downward, but that was
happening before, during the rise in ownership, and after the plateau.
 Nobody can find a single cite on the entire Internet showing US accident
rates rising from before, to during and after cellphones existed.
 The *only* people claiming it did make money out of creating the laws.
1. Lawyers
2. Police
3. Insurance
 Nobody on this newsgroup has ever found a reliable cite showing the
accident rate in the USA rising in accord with cellphone ownership.

'The findings of the present study confirmed the impairments associated with the use of mobile phones among young drivers leading to poor control of the vehicle. '
<https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8297239/>
'As a result of meta-analysis Prepared for Foundation for Traffic Safety by Caird et al., 2018, the general conclusion on the effects of mobile phone use while driving suggested by White et al., 2004 is that both the use of handheld and hands-free mobile sets significantly increased the risk of having a car accident. They found that the use of different phone types was associated with an increase of approximately 40% of reaction time and an accident risk multiplied by 4. According to Billieux et al., 2008 it seems that mobile phone use while driving is related to a high level of dangerous behaviors.'
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1687850723001401>
Shall I go on?