Why ask me? It's pretty easy to find if you want to educate yourself.
Because you are the one so sure about why rear end accidents are happening (people on phones). So it seems you would already have the data.
Yet the data I found said that rear end accidents were already the most common accident in 2007, before cell phones, and 87% were already due to distraction, despite no phones.
Here's the thing. You told us that flashing lights are pointless because everyone is looking at their phones. Then when asked to prove it, you said that using a cell phone makes you 7X more likely to rear-end someone. That is not proof all accidents are due to phones, it just means there is some additional risk. Nor is it an indication that 7X more accidents are due to phones. Because that study doesn't tell you the baseline at all. 7X versus WHAT? Versus not having an accident in the next 10 seconds? On average humans drive about 40 million seconds between accidents. So you go from a 1:4M chance in the next 10 seconds to a 1:800K chance?
This is why I asked how the
rate of
actual rear end accidents, per mile, has increased since the cell phone introduction, to support your statement that all rear end accidents are due to people looking at phones, and thus no indication on the car could help. " just the sad reality of today's drivers," right? Should be easy to prove if true.
I can't find that info anywhere. Yet you seem sure, so I assume you have the info. Nobody disagrees that being distracted is a problem. The question is for some PROOF that the
cause of this distraction in 2022 is phones to the point that flashing lights are completely pointless, as the only reason people rear-end is that they aren't looking out the window at all. To which I remind you:
Approximately 40 percent of crash-involved drivers had their gaze directed out the front windshield at the time of lead-vehicle braking onset.
