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(quoted from post at 08:12:23 02/16/17) According to AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 88% of drivers 19 to 24 believe that taking many risks while driving is perfectly OK. This is of course the fault of no one but their parents who are aged 35 to 50. Many did a great job but most appear to have abdicated the job. We all need very powerful flashing yellow beacon lights on our tractors if they ever go on the road.
Gotta say from personal experience that you are dead wrong. When I got my license way back in 1971 my parents had tired to raise me right. But behind the wheel I was dangerous! I got lucky and never got in a wreck. But I drove like a wild man when my parents couldn't see! In 72 while working for a farmer I got forced into the ditch on a 756 Farmall with a semi mount 4 bottom plow by a guy coming the other way. He was taking his half out the middle of the road. Middle aged guy too. He went in one ditch, me the other. Boss was behind me in his pickup.
I think that the lighting requirements of today are more a reflection that in many areas there is much more traffic. Lot more cars on the road. They didn't use to have seat belts either.
Rick
Rick, you can give tens of thousands of examples of exceptions to the rule, but it is still 88% very aggressive and in 2015 traffic deaths were up 7% over the year before. The LARGEST INCREASE IN 50 YEARs!!
Show: They are attributing that most often to cell phones and texting. They say those darns things are about as bad for driving as booze is.
Rick
Actually Rick, the study was a survey of thousands of millennials who answered questions such as how fast over the speed limit is safe, should you stop for stop signs, should you stop for red lights. It was all things that could get someone killed. Then they compared the results with ten-15 years earlier. The results showed an 88% increase in risky behavior. Not just texting.
I'm not saying that AAA's survey is wrong BUT......
It's a survey. You can get different results with the same questions in different areas or times. Surveys can differ just because people can and do lie. So I can take someone's word for it or I can use other data, in this case how about a sampling of tickets?
How about data from observations? I know that where I live for example we have seen a lot more traffic than 10 or 20 years ago. and that's up from 40 years ago. What I have not noticed was a difference in driving habits. 20 years ago on the highway that passes through our farm I saw people pull out in front of traffic, pass 4 or 5 cars at once, tailgate and run 5-10 miles over the posted speed limit. I see the same thing today. Sure more often but traffic is much heavier to day too. Another thing I've noticed is that young people today are more willing to admit to risky behavior, almost like they are bragging about it rather than hiding it. I can't prove it but I think that a lot has to do with the internet and the 5 minutes of fame that can be achieved by posting a video of you doing something stupid.
OK so on one hand you have AAA's survey, on the other accident reports. Now I know from talking to a few cops I know that you get involved in an accident today it's almost a given that they are going to check cell records to see if you were using your phone and weather it was for a call or texting. The cops and the National Highway Safety Counsel both attribute the rise in traffic deaths to cell phone usage. That data is gathered from accident investigations.
So who do I trust? A survey that can be affected by social acceptance of the time or actual data gathered from police investigations that include evidence like cell phone records?
Rick