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warren_stupidity t1_ivya6g6 wrote

Reply to comment by redditthrower888999 in Eliminate Daylight Saving Time by Dramatic-Ad7828

"That month, a National Safety Council survey found no appreciable change in the number of early-morning fatalities between January 1973 and January 1974. And a Reuters report said the United States had used about 2 percent less energy because of the change." (paywalled WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/03/18/daylight-saving-seventies-history/)

The problem is and was media driven panic.

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Beautiful_Repeat_718 t1_ivyg2hq wrote

They need to redo that survey, as it's unfair to use a nearly 50 year old survey to judge how the world is now. There weren't self driving cars in the mid-70's.

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warren_stupidity t1_ivyi16f wrote

The data hasn't changed.

Also self driving cars? That ain't a real problem, but if you have evidence that self driving cars are more dangerous than human operated vehicles please cite it. And I do not mean anecdotes, I mean valid statistical evidence.

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