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

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super70s wrote on Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:17:10 -0600 :

>> I fully agree with you that there should be a law against using Mercedes
>> vehicles while driving. It makes perfect sense to do that (in your world).
> 
> ? You make no sense. Or if that was an attempt at wit you failed.

Thank you for agreeing that your own argument made absolutely no sense.
Even to you.

This is your argument:
 Anecdotally, a red car with blue toys in it hit a tree.
 Therefore, the blue toy caused the accident.
 Hence, we must ban blue toys while driving.

All I did was switch your own argument around:
 Anecdotally, a red car with blue toys in it hit a tree.
 Therefore, the red car caused the accident.
 Hence, we must ban red cars while driving. 

The point, if you don't get it, is your entire argument is patently absurd.

>>> Anecdotal but I've seen enough anecdotes to believe these laws are needed.
>> 
>> Nobody said that driving doesn't *already* include handling a zillion
>> distractions, so we all agree that only people who are too stupid to handle
>> those distractions should be driving.
>> That's why we have a "driving test" for all drivers after all.
>> 
>> If they're too stupid to handle one more distraction out of hundreds (maybe
>> thousands) then they shouldn't be driving a vehicle, Mercedes or otherwise.
>> 
>> In reality, there should be a law against giving stupid people a license.
>> 
>> In fact, insurance companies always gave me a "good driver" discount and a
>> "good student" discount because I'm not too stupid to handle distractions.
> 
> I only have a 10% "claim free" discount. I've been driving for over 50 
> years without being involved in any kind of accident for almost that 
> long. My latest premium was $271 for 12 months and that's probably a 
> lot cheaper than most are paying (bundled with the house though).
> 
> Oh yeah, I don't own a cellphone and if I did I'd turn it off when on the road.

The cellphone doesn't raise the accident rate for a variety of complex
reasons, but most people are too uneducated to understand any of them.

All they see is the scary cellphone, and/or the scary propaganda from
1. Lawyers
2. Police
3. Insurance

All of whom make money from cellphone use laws.

Not one person can find a single cite showing that the accident rate
skyrocketed in the USA between the time nobody had a cellphone to the time
(almost) everyone had them.

That's because they made it up.
It didn't happen.

It's a myth.
It's busted.

The *reason* cellphones don't raise the accident rate are interesting.
Especially since everyone agrees they are an extra distraction.

Why do you think that's the case?

Do you know why?
I (think I) do.

Three reasons, in fact.

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