{"id":5270,"date":"2010-01-13T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/cell-phones-and-traffic-accidents\/"},"modified":"2010-01-13T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T10:43:00","slug":"cell-phones-and-traffic-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/cell-phones-and-traffic-accidents.php","title":{"rendered":"Cell Phones and Traffic Accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do not dispute that talking or texting on a cell phone can inhibit good driving<em>.<\/em><\/p><p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/12\/AR2010011202218.html?hpid=moreheadlines\">laws that limit the use of cell phones while driving<\/a> may still be undesirable.<\/p><p>First, the people who text while driving might be the same people who would otherwise be putting on makeup, fiddling with the radio, trying to eat a sandwich, or yelling at their kids.&nbsp; Thus, the net amount of bad&nbsp;driving due to cell phones may not be large.<\/p><p>Second, traffic fatalities per vehicle mile have <a href=\"http:\/\/www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov\/Main\/index.aspx\">declined<\/a> steadily and significantly since 1994, even while cell phones and texting have grown enormously.&nbsp; This does not prove cell phones do not cause bad driving, but it makes you wonder if this effect is large.&nbsp; Most&nbsp;studies on cell phones and traffic accidents suffer from serious statistical flaws.<\/p><p>Third, any accidents caused by cell phones are only one side of the equation.&nbsp; Millions of people use cell phones while driving for beneficial purposes, so the net impact may well be positive.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/32a21_6379328854053402400-1157064978300831103?l=jeffreymiron.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not dispute that talking or texting on a cell phone can inhibit good driving.But laws that limit the use of cell phones while driving may still be undesirable.First, the people who text while driving might be the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/cell-phones-and-traffic-accidents.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}