Phones may be a factor, but since this seems to be a uniquely North American problem, I’d look toward the vehicles themselves: People have always been distracted while walking, but hood heights have increased dramatically in recent years.
Sure, those pictures are always shocking yet have clear meaning.
But cellphones happened everywhere, and people get distracted by them. I’m sure that’s _a_cause of increased accidents almost everywhere
But the truck issue is purely US (or is Canada infected too?). So comparing trends for is data vs other countries is a cheap way of separating the effect of cell phones vs the effect of excessive trucks
Phones may be a factor, but since this seems to be a uniquely North American problem, I’d look toward the vehicles themselves: People have always been distracted while walking, but hood heights have increased dramatically in recent years.
The drivers being on their phones is a major contributor, I’d imagine
Now that would be useful data. Can we confirm that?
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Sure, those pictures are always shocking yet have clear meaning.
But cellphones happened everywhere, and people get distracted by them. I’m sure that’s _a_cause of increased accidents almost everywhere
But the truck issue is purely US (or is Canada infected too?). So comparing trends for is data vs other countries is a cheap way of separating the effect of cell phones vs the effect of excessive trucks