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The cellphone paradox - where are all the accidents?
ceg wrote:
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:10:06 -0500, Muggles wrote: I highly doubt it's any more distracting than playing music might be. If that is the case, that cellphone usage is *not* distracting, then, instantly, that would *solve* the paradox. It's true, playing music can be pretty distracting. It isn't normally, but sometimes it can be. But, then, how do we reconcile that observation with the fact that (unnamed) "studies show" that cellphone use is "as distracting as driving drunkly"? Well, around here, driving drunkly was common and normal behaviour for a large segment of the population thirty years ago, and now it isn't. Perhaps as a hazard it has disappeared and been replaced with texting while driving instead. The *new* paradox looms - which is - if cellphone use isn't distracting, then why do "studies show" that it *is* distracting (as drunk driving)? Nothing makes sense in all these arguments. There is very little intelligent discussion. This is true, because there is very little actual data. So an intelligent discussion is pretty much impossible. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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ceg writes:
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 11:32:55 -0400, micky wrote: Yet, the paradox remains because actual accident statistics are *extremely reliable*. Why is that a paradox? I thought the paradox was clear by my Fermi Paradox example. Very funny. The Fermi Paradox is about "absence of evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence". -- Dan Espen |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 15:36:10 -0700, Ashton Crusher
wrote: And if cell phone use and texting is so horrible, why do we allow the police to drive around all day talking on their radios and typing on their mobile data terminals? Funny how when outlawing teh "distraction" would interfere with the police state suddenly it's not important to outlaw it. Police and fire do not "type" on their mobile terminals. Most are set to not allow input while moving. They also do not talk all day on the radio. Just listen on a scanner and see how often someone actually talks while moving. It's rare and maybe once per WEEK per officer at most. Only in hot pursuit will they talk while moving. If there are two officers in the car, the passenger will do the talking. There are also other users of mobile data terminals that are exempted by the Calif Vehicle Code. While the law was written to prevent people from watching TV while driving, it has been expanded to data terminals, GPS, computahs, etc. Section 27602: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/?1dmy&urile=wcmath:/dmv_content_en/dmv/pubs/vctop/vc/d12/c5/a5/27602 Note that ham radio operators have been exempt. Part of the reason is that there was no evidence of any significant accidents or fatalities to hams resulting from talking while moving when the ordinance was inscribed. There are about 2,000 ham operators in the county. I think I've met about 1/3 of them. In the last 40 years, I don't know of any that have died or been injured while driving, much less while talking on the radio. So, what's the difference between texting, talking, and ham radio operation? Ham radio is a simplex operation. You can only talk and listen, one at a time, and not simultaneously, such as on the telephone. We seem to be able to handle either the input or output channel quite easily, but not simultaneously. I've done some crude testing to see if that's true. When I use a PTT (push to talk microphone) to make a phone call while moving, there's no problem because my caller and I are operating simplex. The same operation done with a handset, in full duplex mode, it highly distracting and sometimes confusing. If you want innovation in this area, consider adding a typical mobile radio microphone to a cell phone, add a loudspeaker, set it up for simplex, and maybe the mythical accident rate will fall. If not, I can probably arrange the statistics to demonstrate that it will. For texting, I had a recent bad experience. I was the passenger in a car where the driver was getting "notifications" continuously roughly twice per minute. The phone would make an obnoxious noise when they arrived. He just couldn't resist the temptation to look at his phone and see what had just arrived. I mentioned it to him, and was ignored. There was no interactive texting or chat session, but plenty of approximately 3 second distractions. That's enough for an accident. Fortunately, there were none, although I was tempted to kiss the ground as I exited the vehicle. Note, I'm not addressing Texting... that's not a 'distraction', it is literally a separate task from driving and I would expect properly done research would show it's in a whole different class of hazards from talking on a phone. But that's just an expectation. Yep. You got it. The smartphone has an accelerometer and can easily tell when it's moving. Buffer incoming texts and block the keyboard while the phone is moving. End of problem (until it's hacked). Apps are already available but it really should be built into the phone firmwa https://play.google.com/store/search?q=no%20text%20while%20driving%20app&c=apps -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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The cellphone paradox - where are all the accidents?
ceg writes:
The paradox is that cellphone ownership skyrocketed in the past few years in the USA, while accidents continued on the *same steady decline* that they had been on for decades. Here's a hint: cell phone ownership IS NOT EQUAL TO cell phone usage while driving -- Dan Espen |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:14:45 -0500, ceg wrote:
PARADOX 2: If 98.5% of the drivers are already such responsible users of cellphones, then why the need for the laws that penalize cellphone use while driving? Because there's no end of people who think they should tell others how to live their lives. Mandatory wiper laws are an example. I guess there are still people who think living isn't terminal. This http://tinyurl.com/qclh5gg leads to the Carpe Diem site. It talks about a woman who successfully challenged Mississippi's Board of Cosmetology. They required 18 months of schooling for people who wanted to braid hair professionally. -- Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
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The cellphone paradox - where are all the accidents?
On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 7:10:02 PM UTC-4, Muggles wrote:
I highly doubt it's any more distracting than playing music might be. I think you're lost in space again. Listening to music doesn't require your concentration, you're paying attention to every word, so you can understand what the person on the phone is saying. It also doesn't require typing in numbers, looking up numbers in directories, responding because it's suddenly ringing and it may be your boss, texting, etc. |
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The cellphone paradox - where are all the accidents?
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:58:37 +0000 (UTC), ceg
wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 16:38:06 +0100, Gareth Magennis wrote: QUOTE: In 2014, 1.5 per cent of car drivers in England were observed using a hand-held mobile phone whilst driving. This is similar to the 1.4 per cent of car drivers in England observed using a hand-held mobile phone in 2009 and is not a statistically significant change. UNQUOTE. I only mention the USA accident *rate* because we have *reliable* numbers for the USA, both prior and during the skyrocketing cellphone ownership rates in the USA. Do we have reliable accident rate figures for the UK to see if the cellphone paradox applies to the UK as much as it does to the USA? Speaking of the UK, they did a study of the influence of speed cameras (they have a LOT of them) on accidents and it showed that where there were cameras that statistically the accidents INCREASED. They attempted to bury the report. It was eventually released but uniformly ignored by those in power. Further proof, as if more was needed, that speed cameras are for revenue, not safety. |
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The cellphone paradox - where are all the accidents?
On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 3:55:34 PM UTC-5, trader_4 wrote:
On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 4:50:14 PM UTC-4, Gareth Magennis wrote: "ceg" wrote in message ... On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 16:38:06 +0100, Gareth Magennis wrote: QUOTE: In 2014, 1.5 per cent of car drivers in England were observed using a hand-held mobile phone whilst driving. This is similar to the 1.4 per cent of car drivers in England observed using a hand-held mobile phone in 2009 and is not a statistically significant change. UNQUOTE. I only mention the USA accident *rate* because we have *reliable* numbers for the USA, both prior and during the skyrocketing cellphone ownership rates in the USA. Do we have reliable accident rate figures for the UK to see if the cellphone paradox applies to the UK as much as it does to the USA? Are you not missing the point? The UK figures seem to suggest that "skyrocketing mobile phone ownership" does not actually mean that more people are using their phones whilst driving. After all, everyone has one now, surely. Gareth. IDK what the experience in the UK has been. But I do think everyone here would agree that in the USA, since the introduction of cell phones, there has been a large increase in the number of people using them in cars. So much so, that many states have made it illegal, including here and I still see plenty of people doing it. So, I think that premise that CEG's reasoning is based on is valid. Since it's illegal in many states drive text and talk , people are going to "LIE" about the cause of an accident unless the police confiscate all cell phones after an accident and examine them and the driver's cell phone records. Statistics are only valid based on the accuracy of the data. Think global warming. 8-) [8~{} Uncle Text Monster |
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The cellphone paradox - where are all the accidents?
On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 7:08:22 PM UTC-4, ceg wrote:
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 13:42:28 -0700, trader_4 wrote: As I and others have said, it could be that other causes of accidents eg drunk driving, have been going DOWN. We know the number of deaths due to drunk driving have been cut by half. It's reasonable to assume that there are also a lot more non-fatal accidents that have also been eliminated. It could be changes in what gets reported and what doesn't. Were the standards of reporting, the methods the same in all states, over all those years? It seems the census folks have concerns about something there, with the warning about year to year comparisons. It could be a *lot* of things, I agree. Hence the paradox. Nice edit job, where you ignored where I showed you that you're continued statement that accidents have been going down for years is wrong and also where the census bureau folks that you cite say that trying to compare data from year to year "should be done with caution". Looks like you're not interested in the actual facts, just repeating the alleged "paradox" Here is what I posted again: For someone so concerned about what's going on, seems you haven't really spent much time looking at the data yourself, even though you dumped the unanalyzed, raw data links on us. From your very first link: http://www.census.gov/compendia/stat...es/12s1103.pdf In 1995 there were 10.7 mil accidents, in 2009 there were 10.8 mil. That isn't going down, down, down. They also state: "Data are estimated. Year-to-year comparisons should be made with caution." Which may explain why with the number mostly steady at about 10.7 mil from 1995 to 2009, there is a one time huge jump up to 13.4 mil in 2000. In other words, given that disclaimer, we really don't know the accuracy of the data set. |
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The cellphone paradox - where are all the accidents?
Jeff Liebermann wrote:
Police and fire do not "type" on their mobile terminals. Most are set to not allow input while moving. They also do not talk all day on the radio. Just listen on a scanner and see how often someone actually talks while moving. It's rare and maybe once per WEEK per officer at most. Only in hot pursuit will they talk while moving. If there are two officers in the car, the passenger will do the talking. Around here, it is routine to see two officers in the car. When they are not on their way to a call, one officer is driving while the second officer is typing every license plate he sees into the terminal and running plates as fast as he can in hopes of finding a car with outstanding warrants. There is a very distinct division of tasks. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:24:42 +0000 (UTC), ceg
wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 11:32:55 -0400, micky wrote: Why is that a paradox? I thought the paradox was clear by my Fermi Paradox example. Think again. The Fermi Paradox is better stated as: "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence". Much of this has its basis in theology where wrestling over the existence of God is an international sport. A more simplistic version is that you can't prove anything with nothing as evidence. The corollary also doesn't work whe "Quantity of evidence is not evidence of quantity". In other words, just because you have a large pile of numbers, doesn't mean you can prove a large number of things. The problem is that the "Fermi Paradox" is the logic sucks. "The great Enrico Fermi proposed the following paradox. Given the size of the universe and evidence of intelligent life on Earth making it non-zero probability for intelligent life elsewhere, how come have we not been visited by aliens? Where is everybody?, he asked." No matter how minute the probability of such life, the size should bring the probability to 1. (In fact we should have been visited a high number of times: see the Kolmogorov and Borel zero-one laws.) So, what's missing? Well, it's time or rather how many solar revolutions a civilization can exist without destroying itself or having some cosmic catastrophe do it for them. The details are worked out in the Drake Equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation which computes the probability of two civilizations coming into contact. If you happen to be a pessimist, and use pessimistic probabilities, the probability might as well be zero. Inflating the statistical population to astronomical proportions does nothing to change the probabilities and certainly will not result in a 100% chance of an alien encounter. -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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Per ceg:
Where are all the accidents? How about under reporting? How could cell phone-generated accidents get into the system as such? Guy I used to windsurf with bought the farm a couple of years ago when a guy in an F-150 drove into him from the back at highway speed (i.e. 50-60 mph). He was riding on a wide shoulder, bright clear day, no intersections. I have a hard time imagining that the guy who killed him told the investigating officer "Yeah, I was just so into this (cell phone conversation/text message/email) that I drifted on to the shoulder and drove right into the victim." Same with the buy who almost got me on the Atlantic City Expressway a couple years ago: I'm running the right lane, guy in the left lane just starts drifting into me and I can see him holding something in one hand and poking his finger at it with the other hand (steering with his knees?).... I took the shoulder and avoided contact - but if there had been an accident I would not have expected the other driver to 'fess up. Same with the guy in a pickup truck that almost nailed me on my bike several years ago. I was riding on a very large cross-hatched (no cars) area. I saw him coming - intent on *something* between his knees... I zigged, he didn't zag and then he drove right through the space I was occupying... never looked up. If I had woken up dead that day, I am pretty sure he would have some other explanation than "I was absorbed in my cell phone". And then there is the Canadian study that equated driving while talking on a cell phone with some level of alcohol intoxication.... -- Pete Cresswell |
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Per ceg:
Overall accident statistics for the USA are very reliable, since they are reported by police, insurance companies, and by individuals. Am I the only one that sees a non-sequitur in that statement? I'm thinking it's somewhere in he https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies But I'm haven't drunk enough coffee lately to find it. -- Pete Cresswell |
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On 08/16/2015 12:58 PM, trader_4 wrote:
[snip] I don't think that's true and I believe studies have shown it. Here is a simple example of why. When the person is in the car, and all of a sudden you're at a dangerous intersection or someone is stepping out in the street, they can see it. The can also see that your attention has shifted. When you're on the phone they are immune to any of that and don't know what's going on, so they keep talking. That's true. There's also the tendency to imagine you're where the person you're talking to is. With the phone, that's not in your vehicle and it takes too long to shift attention. [snip] -- "The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth." -- Pierre Abelard |
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On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 4:44:08 PM UTC-5, trader_4 wrote:
On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 5:05:39 PM UTC-4, Ashton Crusher wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 13:59:25 +0000 (UTC), ceg wrote: On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 23:23:48 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote: https://www.edgarsnyder.com/car-acci...nt/cell-phone/ cell-phone-statistics.html "1 out of every 4 car accidents in the United States is caused by texting and driving." Jeff, we know each other for years over the net, and I know you to be a very data-based person. Here's the paradox. 1. You and I believe that distracted driving can easily cause accidents. 2. Cellphone ownership has gone explosively up in the USA. 3. But, accidents have not. That's the paradox. A. We can *assume* that driving while using cellphones has gone up. B. We can also *assume* that distracted driving is dangerous. C. Unfortunately, distracted driving statistics are atrociously inaccurate. Yet, the paradox remains because actual accident statistics are *extremely reliable*. So, we really have two extremely reliable components of the paradox. a. Cellphone ownership has been going explosively up in the USA, b. All the while *accidents* have been going down. Hence, the paradox. Where are all the accidents? I have been posting (not here but in other newsgroups) that same question for several years and no one can answer it but they ALWAYS attack me for asking it. What you have stated is the $64K question ... if cell phone use is as bad as driving drunk, etc, etc, and if cell phone use has gone from essentially zero percent of drivers in 1985 to at least 50% of drivers in 2015, WHERE ARE ALL THE ACCIDENTS???? The closest thing to an answer I get is "well, if people didn't have cell phones the rate of accidents would have dropped much more then it has. But that's not realistic. There are simply too many people using cell phones to think that if it was the problem the alarmist portray it would not have caused a spike in accident statistics that was noticeable. Also, I strongly question most of the studies that purport to show how cell phones "distract' people. They usually put a person in a simulator, tell them they MUST talk on a cell phone, and then when THEY know it's the most inopportune time for a 'surprise' they flash a cow on the road ahead and the simulating driver hits it. They ignore that in the REAL world, most drivers are not simply stuck on their cell phone completely ignoring everything around them as if in a trance waiting for a guy in the back seat to hit the button for EMERGENCY at the worst possible moment. They also have no good idea whether cell phone use has simply replaced prior distractions. It may well be that the person on the cell phone who IS distracted is the same person who 15 years ago would have been fiddling with their CDs and CD player trying to select a new CD to play, or would have been fiddling with the radio looking for a better music station, etc and would have been equally distracted and would have been equally adding to the accident statistics. All I can tell you is that from personal experience, when I'm talking on a cell phone while driving, I feel that I am distracted a lot. And distracted a lot more than I am from the radio, which isn't distracting at all, and significantly more than from conversation with someone in the car. I've always tried to avoid it as much as possible, to keep calls short, etc. On the other hand, I know people that are educated, that should know better, that just yack away on totally non-essential calls while driving along. When I was driving, my cell phone was OFF unless I was in a residential area, driving at low speeds, being directed to a location. I don't turn my cell phone on anyway unless I want to make a call or I've told someone to call my cell phone. I have a numeric pager with voicemail service which lets me know that someone is trying to contact me. I've carried a pager for 40 years and have had the same pager number for 25 years and it's the number everyone has to get in touch with me. I don't own a smartass phone, both mine are dumbass phones with limited intellect and functionality (yea, like me). 凸(-_-)凸 I have personally come across complete idiots texting during rush hour, driving slowly in a middle lane of a three lane expressway, with vehicles dodging and zooming past them while coming precariously close to having a collision. I've seen such accidents but managed to avoid them because I'd drive like everyone was out to get me. The greatest Karma is when two texting morons run into each other while driving or on foot. When I was last working, one of our contracts was to install a phone system and data network in a clothing store that catered to young women. The employees were of course pretty young women who speed walked around the store texting with all of their attention on their smartass phone and not paying attention to where they were going. I ran into more than one of them until I started loudly sounding "BEEP! BEEP!" as they approached on a collision course. I've read about text walkers running into innocent pedestrians or other text walkers on busy city sidewalks and it gave me an idea for a new feature and app for smartphones, "A Proximity Alert". It would go off if two text walkers were 10 feet away from each other on a collision course or if the TW got within 6 feet behind someone walking more slowly than the TW or if there was something stationary, people or not, 10 feet away, the smartphone would alert the TW with a loud "Road Runner, MEEP MEEP" along with the tonguing of a Coke bottle sound. à²*€¿à²* http://www.cerbslair.com/ltcc/meepmeep.wav http://www.cerbslair.com/ltcc/rrshow_theme.wav [8~{} Uncle Meep Meep Monster |
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On 8/16/2015 7:10 PM, Muggles wrote:
I highly doubt it's any more distracting than playing music might be. I agree with you, however, have you ever seen anyone playing a musical instrument while driving?I never have. Listening to music though, is far different that talking on the phone. The brain can easily tune out the radio since it is a passive activity. The phone requires your active participation and concentration. It has been proven many times. |
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In sci.electronics.repair, on Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:24:42 +0000 (UTC), ceg
wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 11:32:55 -0400, micky wrote: Yet, the paradox remains because actual accident statistics are *extremely reliable*. Why is that a paradox? I thought the paradox was clear by my Fermi Paradox example. Do you remember the Fermi Paradox? No, I don't. As I recall, a bunch of rocket scientists were making the assumption before lunch that aliens must exist, when, all of a sudden, Fermi, over lunch, realized belatedly that if they do exist, then there must be some "signal" (or evidence) from them. Enrico Fermi said that? Because it's not true. Until humans on earth invented radio, less than 200 years ago, there were no signals from us. And none of our radio waves have reached places 200 light years away or more even now. Plus there are animals living in the woods and rivers and oceans and on mountains and underground that people who never go to those places never see and only know about because others have told them. If others didn't tell them, they wouldn't know. If the animals there are sending out signals, they are short distance signals and they don't reach me. That evidence didn't exist. Hence the paradox. It's the same concept here. 1. We all assume cellphone use while driving is distracting. 2. We then assume that distracted driving causes accidents. 3. But, the belated realization is that there is no evidence supporting this assumption in the total accident statistics (which are reliable). Even worse, if we believe the studies and the (clearly flawed) statistics on cellphone use while driving, that just makes the paradox WORSE! If cellphone use is so distractingly dangerous, why isn't it *causing* more accidents? That's the paradox. |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 16:47:34 -0700, Jeff Liebermann
wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 22:49:38 +0000 (UTC), ceg wrote: Overall accident statistics for the USA are very reliable, since they are reported by police, insurance companies, and by individuals. Most people lie on accident reports to avoid potential complications with insurance payments. For example, few will admit that it was their fault when the traffic policeman is standing there just waiting for a confession and to deliver an expensive ticket. Anecdote time. While going to medical skool, a doctor friend worked in the coroners office of a large city. Like all large cities, the coroners office had a steady stream of deadbeats, bums, winos, and homeless that arrived without the benefit of medical attention and records. Not wanting to spend the money on an autopsy and a medical examiner, they quietly guessed at the cause of death with fairly good accuracy. However, after a few embarrassing mistakes, that was deemed unacceptable. Causes unknown were also not a viable option. So, they inscribed "heart failure" on all such cases, which was certainly true, but not necessarily the cause of death. That actually worked well for a few years, until someone ran statistics on what appeared to be a heart disease epidemic centered in this large city. The city now requires either an attending physician report or a mandatory autopsy. While I'm not in a position to prove or demonstrate this, I think you'll find that such "accident" reports are highly opinionated, are skewed in the direction of smallest settlements, and are rarely corrected. The numbers are high enough, and consistent enough, to make the error only a very small percentage. Right. Big numbers are more accurate. The theory is that given a sufficiently large number of independent studies, the errors will be equally distributed on both sides of a desired result, and therefore cancel. That has worked well for global warming predictions. Unfortunately, the studies have to be independent to qualify and does not work at reducing the distribution in a single study. You won't get *better* data that the census bureau data on accidents in the USA by state - and none are showing what we'd expect. OMG! Do you really trust the government to do anything correctly? I wish I had your confidence and less personal experience. I'll spare you another anecdote illustrating the problem at the city level. Hence the paradox. Where are the accidents? Ok, think about it. You've just crashed your car into an immovable object while texting. You're still conscious and on an adrenalin high. The police are on their way and the last thing you need is for them to find your smartphone on the floor of the vehicle. So, you make a phone call to your wife telling her you'll be late for dinner and by the way, you've decided to buy her a new car. The police walk up, ask you a few questions, and notice you talking on the cell phone. If you're cooperative, nothing happens. If you're a total jerk, the mention the cell phone in their report, and you get nailed for possibly talking/texting while driving. You're screwed if they confiscate the phone for forensic analysis or request a call record from you provider. In short, the statisics are where they want them. If there's a political or financial benefit to showing huge numbers of talk/text driving accidents, they will magically appear. If they thing that nobody really cares about the numbers, you will have a difficult time finding them. If the numbers accumulate some academic interest, you will see the same wrong information repeated endlessly in statistical surveys and college dissertations. Everyone lies, but that's ok because nobody listens. Incidentally, 87.3% of all statistics are fabricated for the occasion. You've missed the point. All those things you raise may well be true but they were just as true before there were cell phones. The mix of truth and lies in accident reports goes on but one key thing continues and that is that virtually ALL significant accidents, certainly those society might want to concern itself with, are REPORTED and go into the statistics of HOW MANY accidents. Yeah, the listed causes might be lies or honest mistakes but the NUMBERS are reported consistently year after year after year. And its the NUMBERS of accidents ceg is talking about as the data set, not the CAUSE that's listed. So we know that the NUMBER of accidents, rate actually, the normalized number, has steadily been going down down down. Yet there are people claiming that a NEW and HORRIBLY DANGEROUS CAUSE of accidents has been unleashed into the driving world, the Cell Phone. We can't argue with the fact that over the past two decades MILIIONS AND MILLLIONS of cell phones wound up in the hands of and used by drivers, that's just a fact. But if all those cell phones are REALLY this horribly DANGERIOUS ACCIDENT CAUSING instrument, WHERE ARE THE ACCIDENTS???? |
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The cellphone paradox - where are all the accidents?
In sci.electronics.repair, on Sun, 16 Aug 2015 17:52:04 -0700, Jeff
Liebermann wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:24:42 +0000 (UTC), ceg wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 11:32:55 -0400, micky wrote: Why is that a paradox? I thought the paradox was clear by my Fermi Paradox example. Think again. The Fermi Paradox is better stated as: "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence". Much of this has its basis in theology where wrestling over the existence of God is an international sport. A more simplistic version is that you can't prove anything with nothing as evidence. The corollary also doesn't work whe "Quantity of evidence is not evidence of quantity". In other words, just because you have a large pile of numbers, doesn't mean you can prove a large number of things. The problem is that the "Fermi Paradox" is the logic sucks. "The great Enrico Fermi proposed the following paradox. Given the size of the universe and evidence of intelligent life on Earth making it non-zero probability for intelligent life elsewhere, how come have we not been visited by aliens? Where is everybody?, he asked." No matter how minute the probability of such life, the size should bring the probability to 1. (In fact we should have The thing is that probabilty on a yes or no question is only valuable for betting parlors and insurance brokers, which are really the same thing. One may thing the probability is very high, because there are so many places life could be, but if there is no life beyond the earth, it doesn't matter what the probability WAS. It is partly tied up with theology, iiuc, in that some believers in God want to believe that this earth is his only creation. I don't know why they would think that either. Another problem, IMO, is that scientists, as reported by the news, seem to think life could only be water based, and seem to discount places without water. . I know water has advantages, but it's not the only possibility. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if there were no life anywhere else. There are cerrtainly lots of places beyond earth with no life, so why not more. OTOH, if there is life, I see no special reason they would have a radio transmitter. Until I got a cell phone, I didn't have one. been visited a high number of times: see the Kolmogorov and Borel zero-one laws.) So, what's missing? Well, it's time or rather how many solar revolutions a civilization can exist without destroying itself or having some cosmic catastrophe do it for them. The details are worked out in the Drake Equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation which computes the probability of two civilizations coming into contact. If you happen to be a pessimist, and use pessimistic probabilities, the probability might as well be zero. Inflating the statistical population to astronomical proportions does nothing to change the probabilities and certainly will not result in a 100% chance of an alien encounter. |
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The cellphone paradox - where are all the accidents?
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 21:05:33 -0400, "(PeteCresswell)"
wrote: Per ceg: Overall accident statistics for the USA are very reliable, since they are reported by police, insurance companies, and by individuals. Am I the only one that sees a non-sequitur in that statement? I'm thinking it's somewhere in he https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies But I'm haven't drunk enough coffee lately to find it. No non-sequitur. The statistics ARE reliable as a year to year measure. That an individual report may have errors is unquestionably true. But the only number of significance is simply the NUMBER of REPROTED accidents, not the accuracy of the little details of the reports. If Officer Odie is dyslexic and instead of Hwy 52 MP 429 he puts Hwy 25 MP 249 the report will be off by perhaps hundreds of miles but that ACCIDENT occurred and it is included as part of the Total number of accidents that go into the rate. Unless you want to make an argument that there is some systemic problem where the same accidents are getting reported multiple times for almost every jurisdiction in a state or that the dog is eating the reports before they are filed I don't see any reason to challenge the basic accident rates as accurate enough for this discussion. |
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The cellphone paradox - where are all the accidents?
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 23:25:35 +0000 (UTC), ceg
wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:10:06 -0500, Muggles wrote: I highly doubt it's any more distracting than playing music might be. If that is the case, that cellphone usage is *not* distracting, then, instantly, that would *solve* the paradox. But, then, how do we reconcile that observation with the fact that (unnamed) "studies show" that cellphone use is "as distracting as driving drunkly"? The *new* paradox looms - which is - if cellphone use isn't distracting, then why do "studies show" that it *is* distracting (as drunk driving)? I've elaborated on that very question earlier in this thread. The short version is that most of the 'studies' are crap designed to prove cell phones are dangerous thru a variety of nonsensical study protocols. You want to prove pianos are dangerous? Do a study where one person puts their head under the upraised and held in place by the stick "hood" of the piano then simulate a magnitude 6 earthquake. You'll find pianos to be quite dangerous. Nothing makes sense in all these arguments. There is very little intelligent discussion. So, maybe the solution to the paradox is, as you said, "it really doesn't matter" whether someone is using the phone while driving, or not, with respect to accident rates in the USA??? But that flies against "common wisdom". |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 22:21:39 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 8/16/2015 7:10 PM, Muggles wrote: I highly doubt it's any more distracting than playing music might be. I agree with you, however, have you ever seen anyone playing a musical instrument while driving?I never have. Listening to music though, is far different that talking on the phone. The brain can easily tune out the radio since it is a passive activity. The phone requires your active participation and concentration. It has been proven many times. So using a cell phone should be much more dangerous AND result in a SIGNIFICANT increase in accidents over the past 20 years as the use of cell phones has exploded. Yet there isn't the slightest evidence of that in the accident data. |
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The cellphone paradox - where are all the accidents?
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 01:10:23 -0500, ceg wrote:
The cellphone paradox - where are all the accidents? The Fermi Paradox is essentially a situation where we "assume" something that "seems obvious"; but, if that assumption is true, then something else "should" be happening. But it's not. Hence, the paradox. Same thing with the cellphone (distracted-driving) paradox. Where are all the accidents? They don't seem to exist. At least not in the United States. Not by the federal government's own accident figures. 1. Current Census, Transportation: Motor Vehicle Accidents and Fatalities http://www.census.gov/compendia/stat...atalities.html 2. Motor Vehicle Accidents€”Number and Deaths: 1990 to 2009 http://www.census.gov/compendia/stat...es/12s1103.pdf 3. Motor Vehicle Crash Deaths in Metropolitan Areas €” United States, 2009 http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6128a2.htm If you have more complete government tables for "accidents" (not deaths, but "ACCIDENTS"), please post them since the accidents don't seem to exist but, if cellphone distracted driving is hazardous (which I would think it is), then they must be there, somewhere, hidden in the data. Such is the cellphone paradox. Mythbusters on the Science Channel just aired a test of hands free vs. hands on cell phone use while driving. All but one test subject failed their simulator test either by crashing or getting lost. Thirty people took the test. The show aired 9:30 CDT on August 16. -- Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 23:01:29 +0000 (UTC), ceg
wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 14:04:23 -0700, Ashton Crusher wrote: Also, I strongly question most of the studies that purport to show how cell phones "distract' people. They usually put a person in a simulator, tell them they MUST talk on a cell phone, and then when THEY know it's the most inopportune time for a 'surprise' they flash a cow on the road ahead and the simulating driver hits it. They ignore that in the REAL world, most drivers are not simply stuck on their cell phone completely ignoring everything around them as if in a trance waiting for a guy in the back seat to hit the button for EMERGENCY at the worst possible moment. I agree with you that the studies that show distracted driving to be tremendously dangerous *must* be flawed, for a bunch of reasons, but, one of them is that it just makes the paradox *worse*! Let's assume, for a moment, that driving while distracted by cellphone use *is* as dangerous as the studies show. Well then, the spike in accidents, as you noted, should at least be *visible* (it should actually be tremendously visible!). But it's not. Hence the paradox. Where are the accidents? From my standpoint, there are essentially no new accidents. One distraction has replaced another. It's even possible that people who in the past would have fallen asleep did not today because they were on their cell phone and that engagement kept them awake. But no one knows.... How do you quantify and categorize accidents that didn't happen? |
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The cellphone paradox - where are all the accidents?
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 17:05:28 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 8/16/2015 9:59 AM, ceg wrote: On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 23:23:48 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote: https://www.edgarsnyder.com/car-acci...nt/cell-phone/ cell-phone-statistics.html "1 out of every 4 car accidents in the United States is caused by texting and driving." Jeff, we know each other for years over the net, and I know you to be a very data-based person. Here's the paradox. 1. You and I believe that distracted driving can easily cause accidents. 2. Cellphone ownership has gone explosively up in the USA. 3. But, accidents have not. That's the paradox. A. We can *assume* that driving while using cellphones has gone up. B. We can also *assume* that distracted driving is dangerous. C. Unfortunately, distracted driving statistics are atrociously inaccurate. Yet, the paradox remains because actual accident statistics are *extremely reliable*. So, we really have two extremely reliable components of the paradox. a. Cellphone ownership has been going explosively up in the USA, b. All the while *accidents* have been going down. Hence, the paradox. Where are all the accidents? What percentage of those accidents are phone related? Accidents may be down, but take out cellphone related instances and they may have gone down another 10% or 20% And if everyone had DRL's accidents would be reduced another 30%. And if everyone had ABS another 25%. And if everyone had drivers Ed, another 10%. And if tire laws were more stringent we could reduce accidents another 15% and if every state had mandatory inspections another 10%. By the time we get done with all our "improvements" we won't need to manufacture new cars, the accident rate will be negative and new cars will be spontaneously popping out of the road. |
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On 8/16/2015 6:25 PM, ceg wrote:
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:10:06 -0500, Muggles wrote: I highly doubt it's any more distracting than playing music might be. If that is the case, that cellphone usage is *not* distracting, then, instantly, that would *solve* the paradox. But, then, how do we reconcile that observation with the fact that (unnamed) "studies show" that cellphone use is "as distracting as driving drunkly"? What if the same character flaw exists in people that not only contributes to them being drunk drives, but also contributes to being more easily distracted while driving? -- Maggie |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 22:58:30 +0000 (UTC), ceg
wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 17:05:28 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote: What percentage of those accidents are phone related? Accidents may be down, but take out cellphone related instances and they may have gone down another 10% or 20% That may very well be the case, but taking a look at the numbers, the accidents seem to be *steadily* decreasing. It would be nice though, to see two reliable charts plotted on top of each other. 1. Total accidents in the USA from the 50s to now, versus, 2. Total cellphone ownership in the USA over those same years. From 1985 to 2010 there are roughly 1000 times more cell phones. If in your morning commute in 1985 you were endangered on your 20 mile commute by 5 people with car phones, by 2010 you would be endangered by 5000 people with them. The roads should be awash in blood. But lets talk in terms of something more visible. If the same ratio is applied to those truck tires that fly apart, if in 1985 you saw a truck tire fly apart once in a YEAR, in 2010 you would be seeing over 2 of them fly apart EVERY DAY. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0933563.html 1985 340,213 1986 681,825 1987 1,230,855 1988 2,069,441 1989 3,508,944 1990 5,283,055 1991 7,557,148 1992 11,032,753 1993 16,009,461 1994 24,134,421 1995 33,758,661 1996 44,042,992 1997 55,312,293 1998 69,209,321 1999 86,047,003 2000 109,478,031 2001 128,374,512 2002 140,766,842 2003 158,721,981 2004 182,140,362 2005 207,896,198 2006 233,000,000 2008 262,700,000 2009 276,610,580 2010 300,520,098 |
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On 8/16/2015 7:34 PM, trader_4 wrote:
On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 7:10:02 PM UTC-4, Muggles wrote: I highly doubt it's any more distracting than playing music might be. I think you're lost in space again. Listening to music doesn't require your concentration, you're paying attention to every word, so you can understand what the person on the phone is saying. It also doesn't require typing in numbers, looking up numbers in directories, responding because it's suddenly ringing and it may be your boss, texting, etc. What about talking to passengers in a car? If listening to music isn't considered to be a distraction, then talking to passengers wouldn't be considered to be a distraction, either, correct? Or, some may say all of those things are distractions, so then why would talking on a cellphone be any more or less a distraction than the others things I listed? My comment said, "I highly doubt it's any more distracting than playing music might be." Many people have adapted to multitasking. Driving in an act of multitasking all by itself. Any distraction is only significant if the one dealing with the distraction is not adept at multitasking, or they've added some sort of impairment to their ability to pay attention. -- Maggie |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 23:14:45 +0000 (UTC), ceg
wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 21:50:10 +0100, Gareth Magennis wrote: The UK figures seem to suggest that "skyrocketing mobile phone ownership" does not actually mean that more people are using their phones whilst driving. After all, everyone has one now, surely. In the USA, I would agree that almost every driver has one, and, in fact, there are usually as many cellphones in the vehicle as there are kids and adults over the age of about middle school. In fact, with tablets and cameras and gps devices also abounding, the number of "distracting" electronic devices probably exceeds the number of occupants in the car, such that we can consider 100% to be a somewhat conservative number (counted as the number of devices per vehicle). So, it's no wonder that, after almost every accident that the police investigate, they can confidently check the convenient box for "was a cellphone found in the vehicle?". So, what you're saying is that only a small percentage of people who *own* the cellphones are actually *using* them while driving. If this is the case, then that might solve the paradox. Q: Where are the accidents? A: They don't exist Q: Why not? A: Because only a small percentage of people are dumb enough to cause an accident by using their cellphone while driving. But, if that is true (and it might be), then why bother with a *law* if people are *already* so very responsible such that 98.5% of them wouldn't think of using their cellphone while driving? That then becomes the second paradox? PARADOX 2: If 98.5% of the drivers are already such responsible users of cellphones, then why the need for the laws that penalize cellphone use while driving? That's easy. 1) the world is full of control freaks that live for ways to make other people toe the line (usually arbitrarily drawn) whether those other people need to or not. 2) Gvt wants as many laws as it can possibly have regardless of need. That is clear by the fact that they add thousands of laws while at the same time eliminating virtually no law no matter how antiquated and inapplicable it is to modern society. You see it in the newsgroups all the time. Someone "thinks" X is bad and wants to make it illegal. They have ZERO data showing it's bad but they are sure it is and that's all they need to criminalize it. These same moronic nanny's are the same kind of people who love to get elected to home owners associations and gvt. |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 19:21:02 -0500, "Dean Hoffman"
wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:14:45 -0500, ceg wrote: PARADOX 2: If 98.5% of the drivers are already such responsible users of cellphones, then why the need for the laws that penalize cellphone use while driving? Because there's no end of people who think they should tell others how to live their lives. Mandatory wiper laws are an example. I guess there are still people who think living isn't terminal. This http://tinyurl.com/qclh5gg leads to the Carpe Diem site. It talks about a woman who successfully challenged Mississippi's Board of Cosmetology. They required 18 months of schooling for people who wanted to braid hair professionally. Gee, 18 months hardly seems like enough.... |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 19:34:59 -0400, Hang Up and Drive
wrote: Here you go, found some accidents for you: Cell phone use is now estimated to be involved in 26 percent of all motor vehicle crashes – up from the previous year http://www.nsc.org/Pages/NSC-release...d-trends-.aspx http://www.nsc.org/learn/NSC-Initiat...h-studies.aspx The first link is fact free fluff. Here's all you need to know about the second, a quote from one of their studies... "Effects of phone use on driving performance when drivers are in their own vehicles are unknown. " That's right, they have ZERO idea whether the research even models the REAL WORLD. ALL they know is in UNreal fake scenarios you can get people to do the wrong thing when that's what you set out to find. |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 20:12:35 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
The Fermi Paradox is about "absence of evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence". This "cellphone paradox" is similar in that there seems to be an absence of evidence of actual accident rates going up. |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 17:52:04 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
Think again. The Fermi Paradox is better stated as: "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence". I don't disagree. The absence of evidence of cellphone use causing accidents is not evidence of absence. I don't disagree. Yet, it's still a paradox because common wisdom would dictate that accidents *must* be going up (but they're not). Hence the paradox. |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 16:47:34 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
While I'm not in a position to prove or demonstrate this, I think you'll find that such "accident" reports are highly opinionated, are skewed in the direction of smallest settlements, and are rarely corrected. I think *some* statistics regarding car accidents *are* skewed, and, in particular, any statistic that assigns a partial cause to the fact that a cellphone was in the vehicle. It's sort of like when they find an empty beer bottle in the vehicle, they may ascribe it to an "alcohol" related category. The problem here is that *every* car in the USA (well, almost every car) has at least one cellphone per person over the age of about 15. So, *every* accident can easily be ascribed to the category of "cellphone" related. However, if we just look at actual accident numbers, I think those are very good statistics, because they accidents are easy to accurately report. 1. Police are required to report them when they are involved, 2. Insurance companies probably report them when a claim is made, 3. Drivers are required to report them in most states, etc. |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 16:47:34 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
OMG! Do you really trust the government to do anything correctly? I wish I had your confidence and less personal experience. I'll spare you another anecdote illustrating the problem at the city level. You'll note that I *asked* for better data, but nobody (yet) has provided better accident statistics than what the government shows. One person provided a statistic from the UK which showed that cellphone *use* was extremely low in UK drivers, but nothing more than that has been provided. I'm not afraid of data. But nobody seems to have better data than what I found. One person noted that the accidents in a few years didn't go down (they were flat), but nobody can show reliable data yet that the accidents are going up. So, the paradox remains. |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 16:47:34 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
Ok, think about it. You've just crashed your car into an immovable object while texting. You're still conscious and on an adrenalin high. The police are on their way and the last thing you need is for them to find your smartphone on the floor of the vehicle. This scenario is already well accounted for. It would show up in the total accident statistic. So we already accounted for this scenario before we even started this thread as it's counted in the government statistics already. |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 21:05:33 -0400, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Am I the only one that sees a non-sequitur in that statement? I'm thinking it's somewhere in he https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies But I'm haven't drunk enough coffee lately to find it. I asked for *better* statistics, but, so far, nobody has shown any. I'm not afraid of data. But, what I found is apparently the best we have for total accidents, year over year, in the USA. |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 20:17:06 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
cell phone ownership IS NOT EQUAL TO cell phone usage while driving You'll notice that I have been very careful to distinguish between the two words: 1. Ownership, and, 2. Usage. The *assumption* is that greater ownership means greater usage, but, someone already posted a UK statistic which refutes that fact. That statistic, as I recall, was something like only 1.5% of the population were dumb****s that drove while using the cellphone. So, it may just be that the dumb****s who cause accidents are dumb****s who cause accidents no matter what. If it isn't a cellphone, it would be something else. At least that explanation would solve the paradox. |
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