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smart phone, stupid drivers

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one 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

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

—Samuel Butler