Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 22 hours agoI get texting and driving being a danger. But back in my day you could eat drink change radio stations etc. Why weren't laws implemented back then?message-squaremessage-square30linkfedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down18
arrow-up128arrow-down1message-squareI get texting and driving being a danger. But back in my day you could eat drink change radio stations etc. Why weren't laws implemented back then?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 22 hours agomessage-square30linkfedilink
minus-squareGuidy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·21 hours agoAnd importantly, people died from that shit. Not every time, obviously, so you get morons with survivorship bias lamenting safety laws. A kid in my neighborhood died from falling out of the bed of a pickup truck. Hit his head and was gone.
minus-squarenotgold@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 hours agoThe survivors bias is ridiculous. My wife told me that she didn’t wear a seat belt her whole childhood and she is fine so the backseat doesn’t need to wear one now. Infuriates me to high hell
And importantly, people died from that shit. Not every time, obviously, so you get morons with survivorship bias lamenting safety laws.
A kid in my neighborhood died from falling out of the bed of a pickup truck. Hit his head and was gone.
The survivors bias is ridiculous. My wife told me that she didn’t wear a seat belt her whole childhood and she is fine so the backseat doesn’t need to wear one now. Infuriates me to high hell