Do you hate being contacted on the phone but feel good about texting or meeting in person? I was told that this is something that affects young people more and is looked down upon. But I wonder: Is it really a return to the natural type of human being?
Before, we could gesture from afar, send written messages, or meet in person, but the idea of meeting in person while still miles away from each other seemed impossible.
Maybe phone calls or online meetings are now avoided because they actually seem unnatural? However, I couldn’t find anything that fit cars, so I couldn’t put this in a column.
One notebook entry I thought about with the car angle still needs more research. When Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the boss of Ineos, took a stake in Manchester United Football Club, he reportedly invited people back to the office because fewer emails were sent on Fridays, when people worked at home.
This statistic may be true, but it would be incredibly simplistic if it happened as reported. I might write fewer emails when I’m not in the office, but that would be because I have several thousand words to write, and having people tap me on the shoulder every 20 minutes isn’t conducive to productivity.
But I thought – and this is why I need to bury my head in some statistics – about how it relates to smart motorways. Some of its supporters say it’s the safest road in the country, despite how badly the public feels about it.
What they don’t say is how safe those stretches were beforehand and whether accident rates have risen or fallen since then.
Smart motorways are designed to relieve congestion, so it makes sense that they would be introduced first on the busiest (and therefore slowest and safest) sections of road per mile. I’ll come back to this, so it’ll stay in my notes app.
In statistics: Sherman tank. Some media outlets believe that saying pickup trucks are a similar size to a Sherman is a winning argument. He’s not a winner. The fact is that the Sherman was an incredibly compact tank, measuring only 5.8 meters in length.