Question:
How have the British Government worked out that you are FOUR times more likely to have an accident whilst driving and using a mobile phone.??!!. Why not twenty times, or twice, or five and a half times more likely?.
How do they work it out as FOUR... and is it a con!!??
( I'm not condoning using a mobile while driving..just wondering how and where the figure came from).
Answers:
You may not park your vehicle and leave it unattended within how many feet of a fire hydrant?
Well, here we have a typical example of a government reacting to dubious research conducted in-house by the transport research laboratary, where 20..repeat 20..drivers were stuck on a driving-simulator and then observed and measured for reaction times etc.DO ASIANS HAVE A HIgHER STATISTICAL RATE OF ACCIDENTS OR DRIVING INFRACTIONS?
Thus, when RoSPA and the twits at "Think!" start quoting the cathphrase "Research has shown..." you now know that it was a very limited study, done on the cheap, using artificial means.
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We must assume that the "sample group" would have to cover both sexes and all ages, so it couldn't possibly include a wide sample of those who most use hands-free mobile-phones; namely the 25-45 age group, who would be predominantly male. We also don't know whether the sample people chosen had good or bad accident records, what licence they held, how many miles they drive per year, how long they have held a full licence etc etc.
But you can be sure that their "Reasearch has shown.."
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In fact, the research has shown one thing very convicingly, and that it the fact that the representative sample of people was inadequate for any serious scientific study, and that SOME people are distracted by telephone-calls worse than if they had been consuming alcohol.
Using a mobile phone whilst driving a car is illegal and dangerous. Are your human rights infringed?
With only 20 people sampled, the margin for error is enormous, and fully vindicates my view that the whole experiment was a waste of time and money.
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In fact, I will throw down the challenge, and suggest that they get ME to sit at one of their simulators, and make notes accordingly. They will soon discover that I can talk perfectly hands-free, drive a very large truck and maintain a safety record which now exceeds 2,000,000 miles.
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"Research also shows" that there are people doing jobs for which they are "not fit for purpose" and about which they know bugger all!
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well its there for a reason because i have had many expereinces of people talking on phones and then nearly crashing or having to break suddenlyWhat year Kia Spectra cars have side airbags?
God knows how they worked it out ,but brining in the law to stop idiots using thier handsets whilst driving,i hope this new law preserves many innocent lives.If someone cuts me off but dosent speed up (jerks) and is very close and I rearend them?
cell phones kill because people who think they can drive and engage in a conversation at the same time and obviously cannot. Would you be happy if your doctor was talking on the cell phone when he was doing your surgery. I saw a woman the other day driving while holding a cup of coffee in one hand and a cigarette and cell phone in the other, she was literally driving with one finger.Exactly how many people died from drunk driving in 2006 in the United States?
accidents are reported. say 5 in one day, out of them five 4 where caused by someone being on a mobile phine there for four times more accidents caused by mobile phones than other things.Is it me or it seems that no one follow the speed limit signs anymore?
My guess is they take the figures of road deaths and the causes of road deaths, so there are four times as many people who die while on the mobile phone while driving than those that don't.Is it safe to put a baby carseat in a Jeep TJ?
I'le tell you why .....I lost a child to a mobile user while he was driving......No... I swerve towards people using them and they don't even flinch .....That's whyIts a distraction I don't know how they got four so I am just guessing but I think it has something to do with studies on what is the most distracting, like smoking whilst driving would be 1 and eating while driving is 3 and mobile phones are 4. I think I remember something about looking at how much concentration you put into using your mobile phone and how much it takes away from you paying attention to the road. That's just my guess though, but good on you for challenging the facts!
Im not shure how u calculate that safely but i have seen a guy at costco walk straight into the guy in front of him with his cart cuz he was on a cell, but maybe they look at accidents and find phones in the car instead of in a purse or pocket and got their calculations from that.
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They simply pluck them out of the air! They can do anything they want and they do. Next it will be people who drive red cars have the most accidents or the red headed people toot their horns the most.These people get paid thousands to do this research.by the way white cars apparently have the least accidents because people slow down when they see a white car because they think its a cops car! Who knows, good question though.Should I stay on the expressway during a snowstorm or take the local route home?
Good question. Here in my home state of Connecticut a similar law was passed just over one year ago. They came up with a figure of three, I believe. Three of what or four times of what. I too, isn't condoning the use of holding a cell phone while driving. The law allows a hands free method. This created another way for cell phone providers to make more money with the Blue Tooth devices.Help with car seats my car seat does not fit snug in the rear seat what can i do ?
99% of all statistics are made up.Granted there are idiots who cannot keep control of a vehicle under any circumstances, phone or not. It's illegal to talk on the phone while driving but apperently not illegal to text while driving.
Go figure. Not sure if they changed that since I heard it a couple years back.
Just don't do it. If you are going to, get a handsfree kit. As far as I know that is still legal.
If we all learned to drive sensibly?
some accident reports ask if you were using one . regardless driver inattension is leading cause of accidents . driving requires total concentration. I see people shaving, puting on make up, drinking and spilling coffee or other food and drinks at city speeds you going about 50 per second your in control of a lethel weapon..They are just made up. This crap government are expert at distorting and massaging figures to suit their own ends.They also keep telling us that speed is the cause of the majority of accidents on the roads , that cameras make roads safer, and that global warming is real and the cost of the Olympic stadium has not risen.If you believe anything this Gov says you are a bigger idiot than they are.
I don't condone the use of mobiles whilst driving but what i do object to is this "Nanny" Gov blinding us with meaningless statistics.
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Its probably taken from a study testing response time against a conversation or lack of. Stats are often misleading though.Does anyone think I have gone mad?
I've heard that accidents from cell phones are about equal with drunk driver accidents in the U.S. I myself often wonder why more drivers don't use hands free cell phone devices.What I don't understand is what dimwit in the government thought that a £60 fine and three points will be effective. Lets make it £1000 and 6 points, there has been enough publicity about it now, so lets hit them where it will really hurt. We could even confiscate the cars of continous offenders and crush them. And death through drunk drivers changed from manslaughter to murder!
My air bag went off will my car start?
Does it really matter?These types of phone users are planks anyway. Maybe four is as high as they can count.
How do you convince parents to let you get your license?
Have you ever tried speaking to one of these pondlifes when it hasn't got a mobile? All you get is a series of monosylabic grunts. (If you're lucky)
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They look at causes of crashes. If the driver of one or both vehicles was using a mobile phone, then there is a strong connection between the crash and the phone use. This is not to say that phone use caused the crash.Which will give a more accurate speed reading sat nav or car speedo?
But when a large number of crashes involve mobile phone use, it begins to look like cause and effect. After a bit of counting it becomes clear that there is a mathematical relationship. The difference between 3 and 4 as in Cali or the UK is neither here nor there. Its the difference beteen 3.4 and 3.6. These statistics may be faulty but are not "made up". As for nannies, the government owns the roads so they can make what laws they like.
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Personally I think road police should have a container of salty water in their vehicles. Stop a driver using the mobile phone, immerse the phone in the water, shake and give it back.
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I was watching on BBC last month that driving safety experts did few experiments and asked drivers to do some pre-defined tasks. They do the same tasks with and without using cell phones. Results show that cell phones distract attention from driving. They also give similar figures in that program according to these test results.Is having bad struts dangerous?
So these figures might taken from experiments.
Why is not wearing a seat belt a violation?
Driving simulators.How are you supposed to turn off cruise control?
You put someone in a simulator and run the program. You do this with 20 or 30 or 100 different people (or whatever number the T.R.L. decides to use). You measure their reactions to different situations.
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You then do exactly the same, but with the 'drivers' using mobile phones. You then compare the difference in reaction times and accident avoidance.
Who knows what to do in this situation...?
This is called a controlled experiment and will give a very good indication of how people drive when on mobile phones. This is how the goverment gets many of its statistics.
Probably from the interminable statistical forms the police have to complete after every accident. They don't QUITE ask what colour shoes the driver was wearing, but very nearly!
Where does it stop? To me smoking at the wheel is the ultimate in danger.
A car is a killing machine so what to the makers do? put in ash trays and cigar lighters.
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