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Originally Posted by Mad Mel
LMAO, seriously? So why have any traffic laws at all?
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Right, because that is what I was getting at. Drinking and driving offences carry fairly big consequences and it is still a huge issue.
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Here's some facts for you:
- First large-scale instrumented-vehicle study undertaken with the primary purpose of collecting pre-crash and near-crash naturalistic driving data.
- Nearly 80 percent of all crashes and 65 percent of all near-crashes involved driver inattention (due to distraction, fatigue, or just looking away) just prior to (i.e., within 3 seconds) the onset of the conflict.
- Visual inattention was a contributing factor for 93 percent of rear-end striking crashes.
- (Hand-Held Wireless Devices) Associated with the highest frequency of distraction-related events for both incidents and near-crashes.
http://www.vtti.vt.edu/PDF/100-Car_Fact-Sheet.pdf
But nah, there's no reason to try to do anything about distracted driving.
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Haha, nice try my friend but not once did I say that accidents were not caused by inattention.
Can you try again and get me a study showing that these types of laws have made a good reduction in accidents/deaths.