Carawou@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoNumber of american bicyclists killed in fatal crashes from 1975 to 2023lemmy.worldimagemessage-square25linkfedilinkarrow-up1129arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1128arrow-down1imageNumber of american bicyclists killed in fatal crashes from 1975 to 2023lemmy.worldCarawou@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square25linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDudeImMacGyver@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months 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-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoMass adoption of these devices, you are an outlier
minus-squareDudeImMacGyver@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months 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-22 months 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.
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.