Last night I drove up 95 for about 7 hours and witnessed something terrifying: multiple drivers apparently browsing the internet on dash-mounted phones. This is crazy dangerous and none of y'all do it... right?
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Replying to @dfreelon
I just started commuting on 95 to work after several years of not regularly driving and was appalled by the number of drivers looking at phones while zooming around. I know we have the no texting and driving PSAs now. Have we detected a bump in driving deaths because of this yet?
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Replying to @erhardt
I'm struggling to think of ethical research methods to study this in the field...
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regression discontinuity design from before and after the introduction of such screens?
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The data already exists! Distracted driving deaths & accidents started to climb exactly when smartphones became ubiquitous. Especially among younger drivers.
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Replying to @merbroussard @zeynep and
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@NHTSAgov has extraordinarily detailed case-level data about traffic fatalities going back to the early 1970s: https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data/fatality-analysis-reporting-system-fars … I encountered the dataset in connection to this paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2672202 …1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
Interesting though confounded by car safety improvements. Need rapid change! I wonder if there’s a breakdown by dashboard type?
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