Whats rustling your jimmies?

Yeah it was much better back in 2000 (just taking a guess on when cell phone use while driving became a big thing) when there were 15 deaths per 100,000 drivers than now with 11 because now we have a boogeyman to blame it on!

Rabble rabble rabble rabble
#commonsense #youdoyou #itonlytakesonce #feelsoverfacts

Rathar said:

Have you any source for your stats to back up your claims or shall we assume they appeared out of your rectum while you were hit by a teenager on their phone?

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The wiki article has a nice chart that's reportedly from NHTSA data.

If you notice, the data tarrant provided was bullshit because it was raw numbers and not per capita. With more people on the road every day, a raw number means jack shit in the way of identifying a problem so you can fix it. Now, you might say "Hey big hoss, your number is bullshit too because it's deaths and surely cars are more safer now than they were in 2000, maybe we should just look at accident rates". I would respond, "I agree, but don't ever call me shirly again you fuckstick. The 2 reasons I went with deaths is because tarrant was talking deaths, and more importantly, I can't find data for accident rates in 2000, or any previous year for that matter"

My point is that it hasn't been shown to me that it's the problem bored housewives like tarrant think it is. Even if we take his numbers at face value (which I do not BTW, but that's not important right now) .... it says over 9 per day. So lets call it 10, that's 3650 deaths a year from cell phone use. There were over 40k traffic fatalities in the US last year. That's less than 10% caused by cell phones. Is that a major factor? I don't know, it's certainly higher than the 200 deaths caused by hitting an animal. But it's way less than the 37k of them caused by excessive speed. Maybe that's a better place to focus? I bet it's OK when tarrant speeds though.

Here are some interesting graphs that show how raw numbers of deaths can go up while the rates go down.
Car Crash Deaths and Rates - Injury Facts

This is more of the same, but I think they focus more on speeding.
General statistics



And finally my Rustle for today. People trying to make laws based on emotion instead of facts. That always makes for a bad law. "Well my cousin's wife's brother in law's great aunt died from that and it's just horrible. So we oughta make a law and you can't talk me out of it because my cousin's wife's brother in law's great aunt died from it and I'm upset. I'm upset, I tell you we have to make a law right now if you don't agree then you're just an asshole picking on grieving relatives"

Well fuck you. I guess I'm an asshole then. (not aimed at you Rathar, you just asked for numbers ... I think we all know who I'm talking about)

I bought a new car in June 2017 and traded in the old one. Old one was registered in MD and I bought my new one in NY since that’s where I live now. Old one was owned by both myself and my father. Gave him the tags so he could turn them in, he got the registration which was expiring soon returned and refunded, insurance was cancelled (I moved to my own and off their plan) and figured we were good to go. Year later, MD all of a sudden thinks we’re driving around in a plate-less, unregistered car and is going to fine my dad $250/day until it’s registered. Send him the title transfer and all the other shit from the dealer up here, MD goes silent for a bit then is all “guess it’s fine” and that’s the last we hear.

Another almost year later and MD is back at it again saying they don’t have the plates and that they’re going to put a suspension on the car (that we already proved we don’t have) and of course start up the fines again. Not sure what the fuck else were supposed to do, but those plates were turned in when the registration was refunded to us. Dunno what the fuck issue they’re having at the MVA down there, but it’s causing some rustling.