Re: How will the police find me.

Newyana2 wrote on Sat, 25 May 2024 10:45:00 -0400 :

    The NHTSA seems to be responsible for the gov't record-keeping
about traffic accidents. All I found from them was mixed data, mainly
about deaths.

I'm a well-trained scientist.

I base my assessments on facts.
While most people (who are not scientists) simply guess at everything.

Don't look at second-order effects of accidents until you've ascertained
first-order effects, since deaths are a function of many more things.

It's a myth that cellphone use caused the accident rate to rise in the USA

The only place that myth exists is in people's minds when they don't think.
However, even I would have *thought* accident rates would have skyrocketed.

They didn't.
Not in the USA anyway (where accurate records have been kept for decades).

The rate not only didn't skyrocket, it barely changed.

And what changed was it slowly trended down, down, down.
That's just a fact.

Only fools disagree with facts (that's why they're fools).

The main proponents of the myth are those with money to gain,
namely (a) injury lawyers, (b) insurance companies & (c) ticketing police.

In the accurate US Census Bureau records, what do you see happening to the
accident rate before, during and after the meteoric rise in cellphone
ownership in the United States?
<https://www.google.com/search?q=us+census+accident+rate+statistics+by+year>

What do you see?
<https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2010/compendia/statab/130ed/tables/11s1102.pdf>

Look at first-order effects, i.e., the accident rate per year.
 <https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/yearly-snapshot>

What do you see happening to the rate during skyrocketing cellphone days?
<https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/historical-fatality-trends/deaths-and-rates/>

HINT: US Accident rates trending down were wholly unaffected by cellphones.