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smart phone, stupid drivers

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2017.10.11

As I rode past a line of slow-moving cars today, I counted 8 drivers using their phone (out of 46 cars). The laws aren't working. We seem to be stuck with this sickness: people in control of tonnes of steel lost in distraction.

It's a pity the car manufacturers don't use the electrified steel cages they sell as Faraday cages to prevent cell use when the car is moving.

rand()m quote

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero