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Top Texting & Driving Statistics: ​


  • 2,841 people were killed in car crashes linked to distracted driving in 2018 alone.

  • 385 people died in car crashes linked to texting while driving in in 2018

  • 1.6 Million crashes happen every year because of someone using a phone while driving

  • About 14% of all fatal crashes involve some sort of cell phone use.

  • Around 390,000 injuries happen yearly from accidents caused by texting & driving.

  • Distracted driving was responsible for 8.5% of all fatal motor vehicle crashes in 2019

  • 1 out of 4 car accidents in America are caused by texting and driving.

  • You are 24 times likely to crash your car if you start texting while you’re driving.

  • 202 teens ages 15 to 19 were killed due to texting and driving in 2018

  • Car insurance premiums have increased up to almost 10,000% due to distracted driving.
 
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lakeroadster said:
Your predictable, I'll give you that much.

Top Texting & Driving Statistics: ​


  • 2,841 people were killed in car crashes linked to distracted driving in 2018 alone.

  • 385 people died in car crashes linked to texting while driving in in 2018

  • 1.6 Million crashes happen every year because of someone using a phone while driving

  • About 14% of all fatal crashes involve some sort of cell phone use.

  • Around 390,000 injuries happen yearly from accidents caused by texting & driving.

  • Distracted driving was responsible for 8.5% of all fatal motor vehicle crashes in 2019

  • 1 out of 4 car accidents in America are caused by texting and driving.

  • You are 24 times likely to crash your car if you start texting while you’re driving.

  • 202 teens ages 15 to 19 were killed due to texting and driving in 2018

  • Car insurance premiums have increased up to almost 10,000% due to distracted driving.
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boatgeek said:
What is the safety argument in favor of restricting use of a passenger's phone while a car is in motion? I'm all for disabling the driver's phone while the car's in motion, but until the technology exists to determine which is which, it seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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I look at it 180 degrees from that. Until the technology exists to ensure the driver is not using a cell phone while the vehicle is moving, then nobody uses a cell phone in a moving car.
 
I find it interesting to look at how some classic science fiction authors used 'what people will put up with' as hooks for stories - and compare it to what we actually put up with.

Asimov posited that 8 billion people on Earth was unsustainable by conventional means and invented the Cities in 'Caves of Steel'. (I just checked the book - and google estimates the same 8 billion number for 2022).

In 'The Roads Must Roll', Heinlein uses America's rejection of the carnage on its highways to create an economic story about giant solar power conveyor belts in the place of interstates. (He did put an oil shortage in there, too - based on 1955 numbers of 80 million cars in the US. Google says 275 million now.)
 
lakeroadster said:
I look at it 180 degrees from that. Until the technology exists to ensure the driver is not using a cell phone while the vehicle is moving, then nobody uses a cell phone in a moving car.
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Drunk driving causes 10K deaths/year in the US, 3x as many as texting and driving. Should we likewise install ignition interlocks on all cars to prevent use when alcohol is detected? The technology to do that is widely available and would run a few hundred dollars per car, hardly even noticeable on a macroeconomic scale. If not, what's the difference between alcohol and texting while driving?
 
boatgeek said:
Drunk driving causes 10K deaths/year in the US, 3x as many as texting and driving. Should we likewise install ignition interlocks on all cars to prevent use when alcohol is detected? The technology to do that is widely available and would run a few hundred dollars per car, hardly even noticeable on a macroeconomic scale. If not, what's the difference between alcohol and texting while driving?
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I'm ok with that too. Driving is a privilege, not a right.

Maybe the better approach is to enforce existing laws, and increase penalties severely.
 
Called for estimates to replace the front and side exterior doors. Walked over an hour in temperatures BELOW 80 DEGREES!!! Confirmed a dental appointment for next week, to check how well the implant is anchored and (hopefully) have impressions for the crown that will go on top. I'm looking forward to eating nuts again. I'm the only one in the house who eats nuts. And scrambled or fried eggs. And coffee**. And any form of alcoholic beverage. Taught the gals well, I guess.

**SWMBO will in fact drink coffee. Two tablespoons of coffee, one cup of milk, one (or more) tablespoons of sugar. I didn't raise her right, sorry. ;)
PS: Anyone out there familiar with "coffee soup"? It was a staple growing up, because the ingredients were cheap. Served with scrambled eggs, usually.
 
17 days since I broke my ribs, and I am finally able to take an absolute full breath without going into spasms. I "celebrated" by going for a 3 mile "test run" this morning, and doing a VO2 cycling workout this evening. I have 5 weeks and 4 days before Ironman Waco, and I really needed this to come together, so I'm very relieved by rate of recovery...although I still can't sleep for crap. I have a lot personally wrapped up in this race; 2 1/2 years ago I set complete an Ironman as the insane mountaintop goal of getting healthy, and I was pretty bummed when I thought I was going to have to wait another year to try, but if everything stays on track I should get my shot on Oct 15...I'm getting excited again.
 
My wife's aunt and uncle from North Carolina were in town the last few days. It was spending time with them, seeing some local sites and enjoying Bangers and Mash for dinner at a local and authentic Irish Pub.(the owner even shipped a bar rail and bar back to the US from Ireland when he moved here.)
 
New Iridium plugs in the Rav4 -still misfires.

Diagnosis switches to old school - plug on coil on cylinder head (frowned upon by 'real' mechanics*). No spark on coil 1, meaty, beefy spark on the rest.

Pulls 14.4 v colts on the coil cable, so I think we have our culprit. I hope so anyway.

*Apparently a fire and high voltage shock hazard. How about clean down the head first and put your hands in your freakin' pockets? 🤔
 
I tested the 1944 radio console on the SS Red Oak Victory ship. We're getting ready for Sunday, Pancake Breakfast, and we send radio telegrams from ship to shore using the original equipment.
 
Cl(VII) said:
17 days since I broke my ribs, and I am finally able to take an absolute full breath without going into spasms. I "celebrated" by going for a 3 mile "test run" this morning, and doing a VO2 cycling workout this evening.
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I would suggest letting the ribs heal. I got back into riding years ago at about two-weeks post collar-bone break. I now have a permanent weakness there where the bone didn't heal. Patience, Grasshopper.
 
Cl(VII) said:
17 days since I broke my ribs, and I am finally able to take an absolute full breath without going into spasms. I "celebrated" by going for a 3 mile "test run" this morning, and doing a VO2 cycling workout this evening.
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What's a vanadium dioxide workout? ;)
I was pretty bummed when I thought I was going to have to wait another year to try, but if everything stays on track I should get my shot on Oct 15...I'm getting excited again.
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What does you primary doctor or orthopedist or sports medicine specialist think about that? I'm worried for you. If the docs say you're OK to go, then sure, go. Otherwise, as big a bummer as waiting another year would be, it can't be as big as a lifetime injury such as Mr. Top described. In general, good advice after a serious injury (or major surgery, which is a form of serious injury) is to take it slow, not too slow, but slow enough.
 
jqavins said:
e, go. Otherwise, as big a bummer as waiting another year would be, it can't be as big as a lifetime injury such as Mr. Top described. In general, good advice after a serious injury (or major surgery, which is a form of serious injury) is to take it slow, not too slow, but slow enough.
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Initial opinion by the ER doc and subsequent follow ups with my primary care are that baring setback I should be safe to proceed. Even minor rib injuries are prohibitively painful when swimming, so as long as I can tolerate the swim from a comfort POV then the underlying rib injury is well past the at risk stage. Both believe that my underlying cardio health is good enough that the reduced training due to the injury will not see me regress to the point that it is a problem from that aspect either.
 
Wally Ferrer said:
Got two quotes and waiting for the third company to show and give another one, got home (Freedom Launch) to find my garage door damaged so it sags in the middle now, requiring manual assistance to close... :questions:
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I had a wooden garage door (2 car) that got water logged and sagged, became an operational issue as well. That was how I knew it was time for a new garage door. They are less expensive than I would have guessed. I had them install a new opener as well.

Jim
 
Wally Ferrer said:
Got two quotes and waiting for the third company to show and give another one, got home (Freedom Launch) to find my garage door damaged so it sags in the middle now, requiring manual assistance to close... :questions:
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Just a few months ago this Social-Security aged, back-pain recipient with muscles of crap was able to take down two garage doors and an opener and replace them in about a week. One of them squeaks as it's raised or lowered but it's the urethane wheels, not the door itself; otherwise they're perfectly square (unlike the old ones) and work properly.

Old ones were wood, quite heavy. I needed assistance from SWMBO to take them down, otherwise it was done entirely alone.

The torsion-spring models are much easier to install than the old double-killer-spring types. Mine came from Menards, about $1k each and worth it.
 
prfesser said:
Just a few months ago this Social-Security aged, back-pain recipient with muscles of crap was able to take down two garage doors and an opener and replace them in about a week. One of them squeaks as it's raised or lowered but it's the urethane wheels, not the door itself; otherwise they're perfectly square (unlike the old ones) and work properly.

Old ones were wood, quite heavy. I needed assistance from SWMBO to take them down, otherwise it was done entirely alone.

The torsion-spring models are much easier to install than the old double-killer-spring types. Mine came from Menards, about $1k each and worth it.
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I should add that I had to wait for SWMBO to go to work each day, move the garage clutter from her side to the other side, put in that door, move everything back, put in the second door/closer, and move everything back again so she could park in the garage. Happy-making as I was able to throw out a shhhhhhhh.........scrapload of junk, and can now fit the mower and electric bike in the other side of the garage.
 
prfesser said:
I should add that I had to wait for SWMBO to go to work each day, move the garage clutter from her side to the other side, put in that door, move everything back, put in the second door/closer, and move everything back again so she could park in the garage. Happy-making as I was able to throw out a shhhhhhhh.........scrapload of junk, and can now fit the mower and electric bike in the other side of the garage.
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I'm still trying to figure out how my wife wound up with so much shhhhh...tuff in what she maintains is my garage, making any mess or clutter my responsibility...
 
I worked on a PC upgrade for the tv-pc. I had a couple of spare processors, so I ordered one of the cheap x79 motherboards. It should be a nice upgrade, and I really want to see what I can overclock a 10- core xeon processor to. The 6 core ones run 4.6 GHz without getting warm.
 

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