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Second Confirmed Death In Japan Involving Pokemon Go (japantimes.co.jp)
An anonymous reader writes: The Japan Times reports another death. This time a 20 year old woman has died after being hit by a car while riding her bicycle. The man driving the car claimed he was distracted changing the battery because it was nearly flat from playing Pokemon Go. Police have already charged him with negligence resulting in injury. The penalty for causing death is a maximum 7 years jail. The Japanese National Police agency said there have been 79 bicycle and car accidents linked to the game. Another death was reported yesterday
This is far too common in the US, and many people are killed by cars. This has less to do with pokemon and more to do with understanding the responsibility of piloting a large moving object with people around.
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So, Pokémon Go has now killed more people than Tesla Autopilot has.
You are going to be sorely disappointed when you figure out the difference between acceleration and velocity. (Hint: Newton's second law and calculus...)
Another misleading headline
PokemonGo had nothing to do with this death. It was a DISTRACTED DRIVER!
The battery he was changing was not at fault, nor was the fact that he had been playing PokemonGo and drained his battery.
The only one at fault is the DRIVER! He made the choice to do something other than just drive while driving. Do NOT blame the game, or the phone manufacturer, or the phone battery....
There are over 7 billion people in the world. Every day, over 150,000 people die.
Two die playing Pokemon? That's sounds about right.
You need a good comparison to make these kinds of claims. When the number of death per hour played exceeds that for other games, then call me.
Otherwise, go take a class on statistics.
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Does *this* explain why alien races all die out before they contact us?
Sorry, who has *attempted* to commit suicide. Obvious logic fail there.
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Maths is hard!
This has nothing to do with Pokemon Go -- the dude wasn't even playing at the time. This is about someone in the car focusing on something other than driving. We don't have big screaming headlines like "14,328th confirmed death involving food" after someone takes their eyes off the road while fishing for the last fry in the bottom of the bag. ObMarkTwain:
“Well, ther’ ain’t no sense in it. A body might stump his toe, and take pison, and fall down the well, and break his neck, and bust his brains out, and somebody come along and ask what killed him, and some numskull up and say, ’Why, he stumped his TOE.’ Would ther’ be any sense in that? NO."
I'm sure that if someone committed suicide then it's pretty safe to leave the pills, a knife, a gun, alcohol, a toaster, and anything else dangerous on the nightstand. If they survived an attempt to commit suicide then you might want to be a bit more careful.
It would only be Darwinism if the person playing PoGo died, such as if they walked or drove off of a cliff while playing.
Nevermore.
The problem is the people who died weren't the people playing Pokemon Go.
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Thousands of people are hurt or killed because car drivers are talking or texting their wives while operating their vehicle.
We should outlaw wives altogether to fix that problem.
Like I tell my daughter, "Pedestrians may legally have the right of way, but a car is a LOT bigger, heavier, and harder than you. And being "right" means little if you're dead."
Just curious but how many people have been killed because a driver was masturbating? It's equally relevant but more amusing to hear about.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Newsworthy? Hardly.
"But it's with Pokemon Go!"
HOLD THE PRESSES!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Many countries are trying to boost cycling rates to alleviate traffic and environmental issues. As such while there are laws cyclists must follow they aren't enforced. In the Netherlands you hit a cyclist, you're at fault. You hit a cyclist breaking the law, you're at fault unless you can prove the accident was completely unavoidable which is almost impossible to prove. If you hit a cyclist who's intoxicated you're at fault, even though drunk cycling is a law. Though no one hear has ever heard of someone getting a fine for it.
It's a strange world.