As I was stepping out of my car the other day on a street here in Pittsburgh, just down the street I heard a great “Boom!” I turned and saw that a car had driven at full speed directly into the back of another parked car, which was blessedly unoccupied at the time. There was no screech of brakes, just a sudden “Boom!”
A guy in the shop I was visiting came out, said “what happened?” I said “texting, I’m sure.” He replied “no doubt.”
Apparently, everybody knows it, as the most recent story I’ve appended below is headlined “Insurance Bills Rise as Texters Crash Cars.”
I shouldn’t be so generous, as the duplicitous author appends this right after the headline: “More drivers on the road + costly parts + texting = bigger claims.
Can you see how they positioned the biggest force behind the increase last? That’s called ‘burying’ it.
Another story below says “Lower gas prices and increased motor-vehicle mileage combined with risky activities like speeding and driving while texting is proving deadly for American drivers.”
That’s the exact same exact tactic that I identified just above – they positioned the biggest force behind the increase last. That’s called ‘burying’ it. And, as followers of the Left-Hand-Path, they diabolically inverted it, saying “driving while texting” to avoid saying "texting while driving”, so that your brain and subconscious wouldn’t connect this perverted behavior to another, that being “drinking while driving”, and also to position texting as the most important thing - vs. driving. And, as a bonus, to position texting as the primary thing, Preciousss.
The story goes on to describe “a 14% increase in deaths since 2014, the biggest two-year jump in more than five decades.” So, driver miles increased 14% in two years, I’m to gather, my devious Illuminist friends?
p.s., the author hedged by saying “in more than five decades”, because “in more than 50 years” would have been stronger and more impactful.
As a bonus, they used the heroic, exciting word “jump” to describe a massive increase in deaths.
They KNOW that everyone knows. Which is why another article below says “Traffic fatalities are increasing at their fastest pace in a half-century, and it's not just smartphone use causing the spike.”
p.s., the author hedged by saying “at their fastest pace in a half-century”, because “a their fastest pace in 50 years” would have been stronger and more impactful.
They finished that sentence with the repugnant meme word “spike”, which implies numbers have shot up, but will shoot right back down again, forming a “spike” on the graph. It’s formulaic, part of a formula.
Here it is again: “April's 6-percent leap in auto insurance prices was the biggest monthly spike since 2003.”
As a bonus, they used the heroic, exciting word “leap” to describe a crushing rate hike.
That story sagely pontificates “Americans are driving more, thanks to rising employment and cheaper gasoline. But that also means they're getting into more accidents — and that's leading to higher insurance rates.”
There! Case closed! Oh, wait, they buried this down in the next paragraph - in an entirely different paragraph:
“Of course, it's not just a matter of more people cruising the roads. Unsafe behavior also may be contributing to a national accident problem.”
May be contributing, may be contributing. Hedging, hedging, always hedging. They pull even further away from the subject by calling it (generally) “unsafe behavior”, vs. (specifically), “texting and driving.”
Do you think that fevered, formulaic conjuring by a wholly-controlled-and-coopted Media is going to stop this subject from reaching wider awareness for very much longer? I don’t.
But I’m not going to wait around for this disease, this parasite to expire on its own – I’m taking action, right here, right now, and I’d ask you to consider doing so, also, if you have not already.
March 2, 2016 – Car insurance costs soar 44% after one claim | The Huffington Post
May 27, 2016 - Auto insurance rates rising at fastest rate in almost 13 years
April's 6-percent leap in auto insurance prices was the biggest monthly spike since 2003.
Americans are driving more, thanks to rising employment and cheaper gasoline. But that also means they're getting into more accidents — and that's leading to higher insurance rates.
Of course, it's not just a matter of more people cruising the roads. Unsafe behavior also may be contributing to a national accident problem, according to research released by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. A February report by the group found about 87 percent of drivers engaged in at least one risky behavior while behind the wheel within the past month, including using cell phones or not wearing seat belts.
July 7, 2016 - Auto insurance rates climbing for Mass. drivers - The Boston Globe
September 1, 2016 – What's Driving The Whopping Increase In Traffic Fatalities?
Traffic fatalities are increasing at their fastest pace in a half-century, and it's not just smartphone use causing the spike
January 20, 2017 - Auto Insurance Rate Hikes Likely in 2016 – 2017
2015 was a difficult year for auto insurance companies. A huge rise in accidents and payouts, as well as a stagnant bond market have made it likely that carriers will be raising car insurance premiums for drivers in 2016 and 2017.
In the past year more drivers hit the road last year than ever before. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction though, and more drivers also led to more accidents happening--forcing the insurance companies to pay out unprecedented sums in claims.
The number of claims made in 2015 was so high that 14 of the 20 largest insurers saw their loss ratios, or the amount they paid toward claims out of each dollar of premiums, increased from 2014.
February 15, 2017 - 2016 Was the Deadliest Year on American Roads in Nearly a Decade
Lower gas prices and and increased motor-vehicle mileage combined with risky activities like speeding and driving while texting is proving deadly for American drivers.
New preliminary 2016 data shared Wednesday from the National Safety Council estimates that as many as 40,000 people died in motor vehicles crashes last year, a 6% rise from 2015. If those numbers bear out, it would be a 14% increase in deaths since 2014, the biggest two-year jump in more than five decades.
February 16, 2017 - Insurance Bills Rise as Texters Crash Cars
More drivers on the road + costly parts + texting = bigger claims.
At an investor conference last year, Tom Wilson, Allstate’s chief executive officer, said rising costs were partly the result of the economy’s expansion. More people commuting to work—and driving to vacations—means more cars on the road and more accidents. Then there’s distracted driving: Allstate said in February there’s a “striking” correlation between the rise in smartphone use and crashes. All told, vehicle-related deaths rose 8 percent in the first nine months of 2016 from the same period in 2015.