Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> 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 06:34:27 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: <v396lj$1iuqd$1@dont-email.me> References: <v2ssjo$ddd$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <v2v70b$pkq2$1@solani.org> <v2vfbf$mks$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <xn0oma1306bpbsj000@reader443.eternal-september.org> <v33obj$grl$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <3ce32e95-3359-c3f6-7c34-6909bcb82a5b@invalid.nospam> <v36b7s$1r28$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <60kd5jd0t4arfg79vtgs9ss7p5iel29d2t@4ax.com> <lp7f5j985ovgs3eqq0b4kg1927ejn9t0pr@4ax.com> <v388bt$249f$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 08:34:27 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ad87a9edcfe687b70ca42e8948a4635f"; logging-data="1669965"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+LdWNCI9FZwbH5s7CfeICXBfsZUJVSefU=" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:s0IZA+vNsD8dk5H2k6YGp5ibwP0= sha1:PsAxKZZOsfDJ77LLP/sk1yRjSGI= Bytes: 2606 Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote: > > If you believe that the accident rate in the USA has shown any direct > effect (either up or down) due to the tremendously different fact that > cellphones went from 0% saturation to nearly 100% in only a few years.... > > You're not going to find that supposed direct effect in the actual facts. > If you could, you would have by now. > Yet you didn't. > Because you can't. That's because you did. > Take a look at the accident numbers for the entire world, by country. > <https://data.oecd.org/transport/road-accidents.htm> If you select "accidents involving casualties" there clearly is a reversal in the downward trend around 2010 in the US. The increasing trend continues until covid and the latest data still shows greater numbers of accidents since 2004. Unsurprisingly - as it's typical of you - you didn't reply to my post where I said this originally. > You can't dispute facts by saying all facts you don't like don't exist. Likewise, and I've already told you this, absence of evidence is not proof of evidence of absence.