204
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2024
204 points (97.2% liked)
News
23664 readers
3551 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
There are minimal details available.
What makes you say distracted driver?
Heart attack, stroke, seizure, bee sting, wasp, spider bite, snakes, malfunction of the vehicle, vehicle unknowingly damaged, avoiding wildlife, avoiding other drivers, spilled hot coffee, incidental choking, heat exhaustion, dehydration, bald tires, poorly maintained road without proper signage, Maybe someone's cell phone battery blew up and it startled the driver.
There's 1000 reasons a car accident can happen. We don't need to assume the worst in people.
I'm all for a little shame if we find out they were hammered listening to bon Jovi with their heads out the window, yeah. But like, chill.
No lie. And besides, the author would be a fool to even hint at the driver's culpability with no information. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Since they got out on their own and walked away from it, you can rule out the more serious medical possibilities
Not really. Any of the other 4 could have rescued the 5th who may have been incapacitated.
This article provides basically 0 information.
There's no reason to make assumptions that belittle others without evidence.
All of those things are possible, but statistically, being distracted is far more likely than any of them... More likely than most of them combined, even.
Source?
I cannot find anything that even remotely agrees with that stance.
this study is from 2007 - 2018. Doesn't even rank.
Forbes is saying about 8% of deaths, but not much else.
8% isn't a lot, it certainly isn't more than any others combined...
Your whole list would result in varying degrees of distraction.
The term “distracted driving” refers specifically to the driver not paying attention when they should have been, and not to them being “distracted” by some event that they have to respond to.
Hot take, all of those are the driver's fault. Aside from unexpected health conditions, but you don't see people just walking down the street and falling over every day. Heck, you get your license suspended if your doctor even thinks you have a risk of seizures.
If you can't control your car in any of those other conditions, and/or avoid those conditions, you should not be behind the wheel of a deadly vehicle.
Yes, we absolutely should have blamed the pilots for the Boeing crashes.
There's a difference between being too lazy to replace your tires and a plane unexpectedly nose diving in an undocumented way.