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Oh god... here I go... as a motorcyclist (sorry) this is something that is utterly frightening. I'm out there on the road doing my fu-cking damndest to make sure that I'm driving defensively and predictably, kind of just trying to ensure that I see my wife and twi girls that evening. I'm at standing height next to your window, so I can see right in there while you text and check Facebook whilst piloting a 2 ton machi…
I'm curious where you live and whether it is illegal to use your phone while driving wherever you are.
If caught you you can be stopped and your phone impounded for one week and released only upon payment of a fine.
There was a news report recently indicating that only a very small percentage of these phones are ever recovered from the police which ties in with the stereotype for this kind of behaviour: Porsche SUV, Chanel sunglasses, ten spare phones at home.
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Compared to other manufactures. We have 150% tax beyond 25% VAT, to make matters worse, there is hardly any tax on micro cars, so price differences are exacerbated greatly. For the price of an estate Volvo, one can buy no less than 6 micro cars.
I know it's a "premium" brand, but we're talking about self-driving cars here. What other alternatives _are_ there? Only expensive ones ;)
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That graph is probably millions of dead people.
There were 1.25 million estimated road fatalities worldwide in 2015, so a 1% blip would amount to 12.5 thousand. So yes this blip represents very real entirely avoidable deaths, as the offset of the traditional downward trend suggests.
"Entirely avoidable" is a strange term in this context. All 1.25 million deaths were technically avoidable, but not without causing significantly worse harm, suffering, and death instead.
We don't actually know what caused the increase, right now we're just speculating.
Now, the NHTSA puts a $6.0 million price tag on the economic value of preventing a US traffic fatality, and based on that figure we prevent as much as we can.
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One thing I miss is my iPod Classic. I used to listen to music in my car and I would feel for the buttons to skip songs. Of course if I needed a newer playlist I would have to wait till the car wasn't moving (red light), now in my newer car I have bluetooth and thankfully it has buttons for skip in the steering wheel. My iPoc Classic is dead though, so I am forced to use my phone, which I wish someone would come out…
The iPod Classic didn't have buttons to skip songs...you used the sides of the click wheel (which, from a tactile standpoint, was better than buttons). BTW, there are Bluetooth remotes available for the iPhone.