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

bad sector wrote on Mon, 10 Jun 2024 06:53:09 -0400 :

Please quote verbatim the person here who allegedly subscribes to such a
myth. No one claims ANYTHING involving 'accident rates', you're the ONLY
one who keeps regurgitating the topic of accident rates continuously
diverting the discussion to accident rates that no one beside you even
mentions. Are you a cell-phone lobbyist by any chance tasked to disrupt
any thread threatening the zillions of dollars made by associated
hardware, software or datamining interests?

What do YOU think an "accident rate" is?
Tell us.

What's an accident rate, to you?

HINT: It's a first-order metric, without which any other metric is
meaningless because you can't have injuries/death without accidents.

 

The fact is they had no effect whatsoever on the accident rate.

 
Their effect on accident rates is NOT known (yet).

WTF?

There are (and were) accidents since the 1920s that are accurately measured
in the USA even to this day; and then there were accidents when cellphones
were 1%, 10%, 50% and up skyrocketing to nearly 100% in use in cars while
people are driving in the USA.

If you claim cellphones caused increased accidents, why is that myth not
reflected in the accurate accident rate statistics of the Census Bureau?

It will maybe be
known after a decade or more of legislation forcing providers to track
and record all cell-phone traffic in moving cars and police to
cross-check, correlate if applicable and reference such database info
when writing every single accident report the world over.

If cellphone use was as horrific as you seem to think it is, then why is
there zero evidence in the reliable record that the accident rate was
affected by the skyrocketing change in ownership from 0% to nearly 100%?

There are reasons for that fact; but you have to accept the fact first,
before you can even begin to understand the effect of cellphones on
accident rates.

 
Accident stats including rates may include some but are NOT, never were
nor will ever be all the facts or the facts, not even close.

There's no way to discuss facts with you when your entire belief system is
based on zero facts - which is why you strongly believe in a baseless myth.