nickthehunter wrote:
fj12ryder wrote:
nickthehunter wrote:
You should tell NHTSA their data is wrong; I’m sure they would want to correct their error.
Well, it is a governmental agency, so the probability of their data being in error is pretty high. 🙂
I fully agree with your general assessment - although they would be more likely to know the truth and lie about it rather than it being an error. But if I where betting on the the accuracy of the reported accident data between one truck driver and the NHTSA, well, let’s just say I’d be highly skeptical of the scientific method of one of them more so than the other.
If somebody had said the driver of car that hit tow truck was distracted, I would agree 100%. I would agree there is a high probability texting was the issue. But when you understand distracted drivers have been hitting things since before most people had cars, "Had to be texting" don't ring true.
As to government regulations; When I retired, mandates where starting to say if I wanted to talk on the phone while driving, I had to have "hands-free" device. Now it would still be legal for me to pull out of sandplant grossing 110,000 LBS with 427 GMC, 2 stick 5&4, where I'm likely to be shifting more than 4 times a minute, but hauling the same weight with 3406E, shift maybe 7 times, (some just button) and big brother is worried my
hand is busy? I think the too busy is between ears, hands free don't solve that. The problem is most of our lives, once phone rings, it becomes most important thing in the world. That was not normally issue until we put phones in all the cars. Now nobody wants to talk on phone, but still thinks what somebody types must be responded to now makes it worse.
