Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 19:17:02 +0000 Subject: Re: It's a myth that cellphone use caused the accident rate to rise in the USA From: danmin@danminart-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Danart) Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: newsSync 666235827 References: Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 19:17:02 +0000 Lines: 54 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-62J8Zl6sLpkTOOlyt9f2fv4PZkrI4s64Q/0EYJnuORUF+XRtar5npE1wgOOs2mjzPtrCnSCsLMfPxoX!Goj46ytS+SU6ypWTcmEVqcqybtmdoAKfpec7eZAh6TNFOM+sAlbjnMWkKb4U8la25MrMZjmWWOdo!2Q== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2796 X-Original-Lines: 1 > Andrew wrote: > How many of you are scientists; how many of you are morons? > > It's a myth that cellphone use caused the accident rate to rise in the USA > > The only place that myth exists is in stupid people's minds, > since the main proponents of the myth are those with money to gain, > namely (a) injury lawyers, (b) insurance companies & (c) ticketing police. > > In the accurate US Census Bureau records, what do you see happening to the > accident rate before, during and after the meteoric rise in cellphone > ownership in the United States? > https://www.google.com/search?q=us+census+accident+rate+statistics+by+year > > What do you see? > https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2010/compendia/statab/130ed/tables/11s1102.pdf > > Look at first-order effects, i.e., the accident rate per year. > https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/yearly-snapshot > > What do you see happening to the rate during skyrocketing cellphone days? > https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/historical-fatality-trends/deaths-and-rates/ > > HINT: US Accident rates trending down were wholly unaffected by cellphones. It is not a myth it is a fact. You get in the car in no way you should answer that phone, unless your at a light and it is on speaker or your in park. Point being you could be distracted. You might as well have a tablet-computer with a SIM-card slot just for your car. Rather then you blasted phone. It is distracting and not everybody have the ability to focus on the road and some moron on the phone. This is a response to the post seen at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=665966706#665966706