NYC Lawmaker Proposes Pedestrian Ban on Cell Phones
another knee jerk reaction...
we, as humans, have piss poor barometers for risk assesment on large systems. we have 1 incident where someone dies crossing the street while using a handheld device and some idiot politician thinks it's epidemic. do these guys do *any* kind of research on what the actual % of incidents there are due to handhelds? no, "if it saves ONE life it's worth it!" bullcrap. with that philosophy, we should all be federally mandated to live in giant plastic hamster balls and never leave the house.
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This kind of fear mongering has been around forever.
Railroad protestors (mainly Stagecoach Lines) tried to argue that travelling over 30mph was inherently dangerous.
Heck, the Electric Chair was invented because Edison was trying to convince people that AC current was inherently more dangerous than DC. Some really sick stuff was done during the "War of the Currents". Look it up.
Railroad protestors (mainly Stagecoach Lines) tried to argue that travelling over 30mph was inherently dangerous.
Heck, the Electric Chair was invented because Edison was trying to convince people that AC current was inherently more dangerous than DC. Some really sick stuff was done during the "War of the Currents". Look it up.
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