[Retric]

You mean how dangerous is tossing something vision blocking where people drive…

[alex_lav]

Yes, how dangerous is it? Please enlighten me.

[Retric]

> Yes, how dangerous is it?

Lethality dangerous

[alex_lav]

No, define how dangerous it is please. I’d like to know the odds of dying from a hat falling from the sky.

If we’re going to call something dangerous, we should probably have actual logic and data to support that claim, right?

[Retric]

> actual logic and data to support that claim, right?

As you seem to be massively misinformed:

> Distracted driving is dangerous, claiming 3,308 lives in 2022

> What Is Distracted Driving?

> anything that takes your attention away from the task of safe driving.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving

Now obviously having a hat land on a windshield and actually block visibility would be worse, but catching something falling out of the edge of your vision especially something odd like a falling hat would easily qualify.

It’s also distracting pedestrians and so likely to result in other injuries.

[alex_lav]

> As you seem to be massively misinformed:

I am not "massively misinformed". I'm asking a person making a ridiculous claim (a hat falling from the sky will kill you) to support their claim.

I'm seeing no mention of hats in your linked information. Please share hat related injuries, as that's what we're discussing.

[Retric]

The claim is distracting drivers can result in deaths, it has little specific to hats. Rather it’s about the dropping.

“Several properties of visual stimuli have been shown to capture attention, one of which is the onset of motion.“

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-018-1548-1

> I am not "massively misinformed"

Your ignorant response proves otherwise.