Carawou@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 days agoNumber of american bicyclists killed in fatal crashes from 1975 to 2023lemmy.worldimagemessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down11file-text
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minus-square1dalm@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·4 days agoSorry, I thought that question would be functionally rhetorical in this group. Smartphones. The answer is smartphones.
minus-squareNachBarcelona@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoIt’s so incredible how fucking wrong you are, my belly hurts from laughing. I’m fucking serious.
minus-squareDudeImMacGyver@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoThose existed well before 2010. I had owned multiple Palm, Windows, and Android smartphones before 2010. By then I think I was on a Motorola Droid 2 or 3.
minus-squareprettybunnys@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·3 days agoMass adoption of these devices, you are an outlier
minus-squareDudeImMacGyver@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoI don’t think your argument holds up very well looking at the actual stats on smartphone adoption, even after 2010 they were not ubiquitous: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/ It seems much more likely to be connected to vehicle trends (not that distracted driving helps).
minus-squareprettybunnys@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 days agoThe NHTSA did troves of studies on this, it’s kinda telling the adoption of smart phones on your graph kinda correlates here. Cars were getting bigger already. Pontiac ran the wider is better campaign.
Sorry, I thought that question would be functionally rhetorical in this group.
Smartphones. The answer is smartphones.
It’s so incredible how fucking wrong you are, my belly hurts from laughing. I’m fucking serious.
Those existed well before 2010. I had owned multiple Palm, Windows, and Android smartphones before 2010. By then I think I was on a Motorola Droid 2 or 3.
Mass adoption of these devices, you are an outlier
I don’t think your argument holds up very well looking at the actual stats on smartphone adoption, even after 2010 they were not ubiquitous: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/
It seems much more likely to be connected to vehicle trends (not that distracted driving helps).
The NHTSA did troves of studies on this, it’s kinda telling the adoption of smart phones on your graph kinda correlates here.
Cars were getting bigger already.
Pontiac ran the wider is better campaign.