Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,ca.driving Subject: Re: It's a myth that cellphone use caused the accident rate to rise in the USA Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 10:22:21 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 19:22:22 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2aacc46c14d92de51bb68c3941f9d4cf"; logging-data="1885758"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18JW2pG1soHilvdQ9Oi6HIAr6G9vmzyd30=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Nas01CMv0pPziCJN9htdHdR5hwU= Content-Language: en-CA In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2179 On 2024-05-29 21:53, Andrew wrote: > bad������sector wrote on Sun, 26 May 2024 19:21:04 -0400 : > >> They don't even have to be looking at the phone or at any display. I saw >> one idiot in whose car I was a passenger frequently eyeball two dashcam >> displays to see if he was recording good clips. > > The main message I wanted to communicate is that people believe in myths > that have no basis in fact when you bother to doublecheck the facts. > > The myth is that cellphones are so dangerous to use in a vehicle that the > accident rate must have skyrocketed (and then leveled off) during the > period that ownership rates went meteorically from 0% to almost 100%. > > And yet... the fact is... nothing happened to the accident rate. And yet... ...the fact is... ....that you don't understand that a complex system involving multiple factors cannot be so easily parsed. Only a moron doesn't understand that.