No it wouldn't. Not looking at what is directly in front of you ends up up exactly the same whether one is transiting a roundabout or a light controlled intersection. She was going straight. Did not know that she had to stop (or turn as in the case of a roundabout). She was oblivious, due to the iShiny in her hand.
T-boned is T-boned.

The only possible difference is that she may have been slightly airborne when she hit my truck. Thereby hitting the passenger door or window instead of the bottom of the door. Either way, the target vehicle (mine) is totalled.

I understand your point, but are you really assuming that the teenager in question would have been a perfectly careful driver if not for the phone?

I'm not asking for "perfectly careful". I'm just asking for her to look out the damn window and see the fucking red light, and not at the phone.
A full 10 seconds of red light. At 50+ mph, that is 3 football fields of no sentient being in control.

Yes, I went back a few days later and did a video (dashcam) and timed my path from green light to impact point. 10 seconds. Almost 900 feet of no one in control, because the phone thing was too important.

Granted, me and Ol' Belle (may she rest in peace) have a biased opinion. But ending up upside down because some teenage twit thought what was happening on her phone was far more important that looking out the window does tend to skew your opinion.
T-boned at an intersection after she had a full 10 seconds of red light in front of her. She never bothered to look, and blew through the intersection at 50+.

" consciously driving more carefully during a call" is exactly what intoxicated drivers try to do.

Different is not better. I live in a city in a nice apartment, a 2 minute walk to the train that takes me to work (2 or 3 days/week I make the 30 minute bike ride to work), a thousand acre park nearby where I can do my morning runs and attend concerts and other events throughout the year, a grocery store 3 blocks away, over a dozen bars and restaurants within a 15 minute walk from home, a real butcher and baker within a 10 minute walk. I have a car, but only use it on weekends and since I only fill up the tank once a month or less, I don't care if gas is $3/gallon or $6/gallon.

And a lot of us don't dream of living in an ant colony. Different people have different needs and want. Amazing how that works, isn't it?

Or look at individual States, New Jersey has a pop density of 1.2k per square mile but they don't have internet connectivity comparable to the Netherlands or South Korea.

And if you were to look at the second graph on the linked article, you might see that New Jersey, if it were a country, comes in 4th, just behind Hong Kong, and ahead of Switzerland and Netherlands.
Vermont, New Hampshire, and Delaware would all come in second, just behind South Korea.

A server is a server. You can run as many VM's as you want on a server, but every VM exists on a real, physical, rack-mounted, power-consuming server.

I have let's say 4 VM servers, residing on a single physical box. Is that 1, 4, or 5 'servers'?

Lesson from that is to build cities that (a) enable people to live without needing a car for everything and (b) provide better public transport services.

Except that Big Oil won't like that and similarly none of the politicians in the pockets of Big Oil will be in favor of that.

No, it's not just Big Oil and the politicians.
*I* don't want to live there. And I am not in their pocket.

I've lived in those situations before. Hirise just outside of Madrid. Many apartments here and there. Hell, I born in NYC. Spent a lot of time there visiting relatives.
Don't want to do it again. I like having a little bit of space. I don't want to hear the kids upstairs. I don't want to have to walk around on tiptoes so as not to bother anyone downstairs.

$1500/mo for an apartment in the city, close to everything, or $1500/mo for a 1/2 acre with a house? No contest....the house every time.
Thankfully, we have that choice. Let's keep that choice open.

It's not always "old guys" saying this. Often, it also seems to be urban hipsters, living in a few selected enclaves where everything is within easy walking distance and/or with abundant public transport.
Completely ignoring the reality of the other 99% of the country.

Who paid for it often has little relevance on if it was actually done.

"Here's $500,000 to refit your fleet"
"Ok, thanks. We'll get right on that."

The military puts the current president under house arrest. Along with the Cabinet, and has warrants out for several hundred other high officials. Then, they (the military) appoint some other guy to be president. The only reason this new guy is there is because the military heads said "OK dude...you're up". He knows very well which side his peta bread is buttered on.

OK, not direct military control, but control by proxy.

Or in Redneckistan Virginia, 50/25 (FiOS) for $45.

They've been building this out since 2007. Currently 70,000 panels, 13 MW AC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellis_Solar_Power_Plant

People in California seem to think that everyone else has this burning desire to live in California.
We don't.

I have also heard the same from manager types in private sector, non-military companies. They had told me in no uncertain terms that they equate ex-military with slackers that have an endless variety of ways of getting out of doing any meaningful work. They claimed this was based entirely on past experience of hiring ex-military.

And when I retired in the late 90's, I heard exactly the opposite. The company (billion dollar multinational), and the CTO, that hired me told me specifically that they like to hire ex-military. I worked for them for almost a decade, and at least 1/3 the IT staff was ex-military.

I thought there was a real reason historically but it just seems that car dealers effectively lobbied their state governments to introduce these "Franchise Laws" after they were established

Because then, as now, car dealers are businessmen. And hang out with the lawmakers.
Or are actual lawmakers themselves. Like Scott Rigell in Virginia. Who owns Freedom Ford. Do you really think he would craft laws that challenge the car dealer status quo? Not likely.