Saturday, July 19, 2014

Using a cellphone while driving has been banned in California for six years now, but it hasn't shown signs of decreasing accidents.

The details here.

Wait. I thought they carefully analyzed the issue before criminalizing behavior. You mean that a bunch of dumbass lawyers just gin up another ban and associated cruelties because it "seems" like the right thing to do?

Personally, I'm not surprised by this finding because humans are not the doltish stick figures of progressive imagination. We are sophisticated creatures who constantly learn and adapt our behavior to changing circumstances. I would bet that people who cellphone while driving exhibit adaptive behaviors that non cell phoning drivers don't.

Tragically legislators and law enforcement exhibit destructive non-adaptive authoritarianism all the time.  Perhaps they're an evolutionary dead end like the two foot tall horse.

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