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Study: Police Reports Miss 96% of Active Phone Use Before Crashes (fuelarc.com)
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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.

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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

My favorite aspect of 2026 is how little time people offer before honking at a green light. Everyone knows that people are fucking around on their phones so it's rare to see a light left green for more than 2 seconds without a little *bep*

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