Traffic accident increase attributed to Daylight Saving Time doubled after Energy Policy Act
Popular Physics
2020-04-10 v1 Physics and Society
Abstract
On January 30, 2020 Current Biology released the report "A Chronobiological Evaluation of the Acute Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Traffic Accident Risk" doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.12.045 by Fritz, et al., where it was argued that fatal traffic accident risk increases by 6% in the US due to Daylight Saving Time spring transition. This manuscript is a 1000 word correspondence showing that the bulk of this reported risk comes from the transition dates mandated by the Energy Policy Act in 2007.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2004.04156,
title = {Traffic accident increase attributed to Daylight Saving Time doubled after Energy Policy Act},
author = {José María Martín-Olalla},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.04156},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
1100 words comment letter. This is the accepted manuscript of a correspondence published by Current Biology (2020)