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>Can you demonstrate, using numbers, that the tradeoff is positive? Are you kidding? If I pull over to a safe place to use my phone, nobody is harmed. If I'm d

>Can you demonstrate, using numbers, that the tradeoff is positive? Are you kidding? If I pull over to a safe place to use my phone, nobody is harmed. If I'm driving and take my attention off of the road and over to my phone, and I smack into a motorcyclist because I didn't see them, I could kill them. >The current animus against cell phone use while driving is the result of a moral panic, not a rational cost-benefit tradeoff. Moral panic? My wife was rear-ended while waiting to turn because the driver of the car that hit her was on their cellphone and didn't see her - they admitted as much. She's still suffering from pain from that accident and the car she was driving was totaled. How is not getting into an accident "not a rational cost-benefit tradeoff"?

hug 7y ago
There are 268 million vehicles in the United States. If we assume that each vehicle makes two trips per day on average, and than the number of minutes of inconvenience taken up by pulling over to operate a phone is 5, that’d be 2.68 billion minutes of inconvenience per day alone! We can be generous and put the intrinsic value of a human life at the average lifespan in the US of 78 years, or 41 million minutes. That means you’d be inconveniencing people at the rate of 65 human lives per day by implementing your law. Why do you hate human life so much? Think of the children. Hail Satan, etc.
- Marsymars 7y ago
  > If we assume that each vehicle makes two trips per day on average, and than the number of minutes of inconvenience taken up by pulling over to operate a phone is 5, Once you need to pull over to check your phone you realize that you can just wait until your destination. I never touch my phone while driving, but I'd estimate the time I spend pulled over to use my phone to be more in the area of 5 minutes per couple thousand km.
  - hug 7y ago
    But how will tech companies extract value from you if you don't pick up your phone even when driving?
- dahart 7y ago
  That was funny. Looks like it cost a few karma points, but I appreciated the humor at this point in thread.
  - hug 7y ago
    Although I'm hardly losing sleep over my loss of karma, I'm glad someone appreciated it.

hug 7y ago

There are 268 million vehicles in the United States. If we assume that each vehicle makes two trips per day on average, and than the number of minutes of inconvenience taken up by pulling over to operate a phone is 5, that’d be 2.68 billion minutes of inconvenience per day alone! We can be generous and put the intrinsic value of a human life at the average lifespan in the US of 78 years, or 41 million minutes. That means you’d be inconveniencing people at the rate of 65 human lives per day by implementing your law. Why do you hate human life so much? Think of the children. Hail Satan, etc.

Marsymars 7y ago
> If we assume that each vehicle makes two trips per day on average, and than the number of minutes of inconvenience taken up by pulling over to operate a phone is 5, Once you need to pull over to check your phone you realize that you can just wait until your destination. I never touch my phone while driving, but I'd estimate the time I spend pulled over to use my phone to be more in the area of 5 minutes per couple thousand km.
- hug 7y ago
  But how will tech companies extract value from you if you don't pick up your phone even when driving?
dahart 7y ago
That was funny. Looks like it cost a few karma points, but I appreciated the humor at this point in thread.
- hug 7y ago
  Although I'm hardly losing sleep over my loss of karma, I'm glad someone appreciated it.