Forgot your password?  Comment: Re:Show me the actual accident
data (Score 1) 358  by fred fleenblat (#39255301) Attached to:
Smartphones More Dangerous Than Alcohol, When Driving  there was
a suggestion a while back that overall accident rates have
remained about the same, slightly decreasing as cars become
safer from airbags and whatnot, but the choices available for
officers to make when writing up accidents tends to be more
dynamic.  what might have been written up as "driver lost
control of vehicle" 10 years ago perhaps now the officer asks if
they have a cell phone and then writes down "driver distraction"
instead. the actual accident rates and situations may have
changed less than our descriptions of them has, so the
statistics that we get are measures of semantics rather than
mechanisms.  Comment: my wish list item for comment threads
(Score 1) 393  by fred fleenblat (#36076442) Attached to: Ask
Slashdot: Going Beyond Comment Threads?  what I'd like is a
comment system where the comments are shared ac