There is already some. Looks like those huge touchscreens are generally worse than using a phone on a handle or being at the legal limit for alcohol/weed (by US law), but better than using a phone with both hands. Plus there’s huge negative feedback from pretty much everyone except some Tesla fanatics.
Using a phone while driving is illegal in most places while adjusting the air conditioning via a tablet with nested menus is not. In theory most of the data should line up with the new touch screens rather than phones which have been available for a long time.
Never in my life have a gone more than a day on the road without seeing obvious cell phone usage while driving. It’s been illegal for like 20 years here. It’s super easy to spot from a motorcycle as well. Meanwhile, there’s way more rideshare drivers constantly adding fares and way more people actively scrolling through brainrot while driving. Touch screens have been aggravating drivers since at least 2006.
I could be wrong but I feel like there was a solid decade of people driving with cellphones all the damn time before cars started commonly having tablets for normal functions.
that still works with what i’m assuming. so people tend to buy new cars every 8 years at least in statesia (average car age 12.6, so statistics are skewed). many are simply in the secondary market. That’s why i’m assuming it could take up to 16 years for someone to get a car with the hot new feature on their car.
i was assuming the timeframe was close to a decade apart, same as you, but i assumed a normalization time that has some overlap.
You would get better data by simply separating out the makes/models with touch screens from the ones without and you can be sure the insurance companies want that data.
Some car colors are legit more “invisible” to the human eye during divided attention tasks like driving. Silver, maroon, gunmetal grey. That info has been circulating since the 80s or 90s.
My nephew went through this. Insurance wanted more for a used 2 door 1993 Cavalier because it was a “sports car.”
The '93 VL Cavalier produces an absolutely widowmaking 110 HP, and that was when it was new.
His was that horrid teal color that they were back in the day, but I’m sure if it were red that would have been another demerit. They could have at least been honest and cited their crash statistics, but no. “Sports car.”
Sports car, my ass. I could beat a '93 Cavalier in the quarter mile on my bicycle.
Its because insurance stats found red 2 doors get in more accidents, usually a new male driver is buying a red 2 door. While a a middle aged dude is getting a 4 door for the fam
People who get red coupes are more likely to be the kind of people who are more likely to end up making insurance claims or, as you mentioned, get tickets. If you get a red coupe, you enter the same group with those people and your premium goes up.
So it’s not the car or its color, it’s the people who tend to buy it.
I’d love to see the accident data right before and after touch screen normalization in vehicles.
There is already some. Looks like those huge touchscreens are generally worse than using a phone on a handle or being at the legal limit for alcohol/weed (by US law), but better than using a phone with both hands. Plus there’s huge negative feedback from pretty much everyone except some Tesla fanatics.
Will try and remember to link a source later.
Might be too much overlap with the normalization of cell phone usage
Using a phone while driving is illegal in most places while adjusting the air conditioning via a tablet with nested menus is not. In theory most of the data should line up with the new touch screens rather than phones which have been available for a long time.
Never in my life have a gone more than a day on the road without seeing obvious cell phone usage while driving. It’s been illegal for like 20 years here. It’s super easy to spot from a motorcycle as well. Meanwhile, there’s way more rideshare drivers constantly adding fares and way more people actively scrolling through brainrot while driving. Touch screens have been aggravating drivers since at least 2006.
same time frame though. normalization takes much more than a year.
I could be wrong but I feel like there was a solid decade of people driving with cellphones all the damn time before cars started commonly having tablets for normal functions.
Not who you were talking to, sorry for butting in
that still works with what i’m assuming. so people tend to buy new cars every 8 years at least in statesia (average car age 12.6, so statistics are skewed). many are simply in the secondary market. That’s why i’m assuming it could take up to 16 years for someone to get a car with the hot new feature on their car.
i was assuming the timeframe was close to a decade apart, same as you, but i assumed a normalization time that has some overlap.
You would get better data by simply separating out the makes/models with touch screens from the ones without and you can be sure the insurance companies want that data.
I’m positive they already have it. These are the same motherfuckers who maintain different premium brackets for different colors of the same car.
Some car colors are legit more “invisible” to the human eye during divided attention tasks like driving. Silver, maroon, gunmetal grey. That info has been circulating since the 80s or 90s.
I had a 135hp vehicle that I paid more on insurance for because it was red and had 2 doors. Very visible.
My nephew went through this. Insurance wanted more for a used 2 door 1993 Cavalier because it was a “sports car.”
The '93 VL Cavalier produces an absolutely widowmaking 110 HP, and that was when it was new.
His was that horrid teal color that they were back in the day, but I’m sure if it were red that would have been another demerit. They could have at least been honest and cited their crash statistics, but no. “Sports car.”
Sports car, my ass. I could beat a '93 Cavalier in the quarter mile on my bicycle.
Its because insurance stats found red 2 doors get in more accidents, usually a new male driver is buying a red 2 door. While a a middle aged dude is getting a 4 door for the fam
And red cars get more tickets. Possibly a psychological impact as relates to color?
People who get red coupes are more likely to be the kind of people who are more likely to end up making insurance claims or, as you mentioned, get tickets. If you get a red coupe, you enter the same group with those people and your premium goes up.
So it’s not the car or its color, it’s the people who tend to buy it.
Everyone knows red goes faster.
Totally worth the $1000 plus the extra insurance.