Study: Police Reports Miss 96% of Active Phone Use Before Crashes - FuelArc News
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A new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study compared smartphone telematics with police reports for almost 17,000 crashes in Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio, and Texas. After excluding passive screen activity such as an untouched navigation display, the data still show a huge gap: phones detected active use before crashes far more often than police documented it. […]

A new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study compared smartphone telematics with police reports for almost 17,000 crashes in Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio, and Texas. After excluding passive screen activity such as an untouched navigation display, the data still show a huge gap: phones detected active use before crashes far more often than police documented it.

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
    4·
    5 hours ago

    Yup. I don’t think you can approve of this kind of research without also giving tacit approval to the police state being built around us.