Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newyana2 Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: It's a myth that cellphone use caused the accident rate to rise in the USA Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 08:38:55 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <3ce32e95-3359-c3f6-7c34-6909bcb82a5b@invalid.nospam> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 14:38:46 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b9270d606a9fa8c9059cb21f80a5d017"; logging-data="1211430"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18DYASPKXUAjE/fIEhKGadeAmpwGChtPO0=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.3.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:0bs2XpBql6mcXYfoAnaw0EwRDAc= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2740 On 5/29/2024 1:05 AM, Andrew wrote: > Nobody has yet found any statistic that backs up the myth. > There's a reason for that fact. > You, yourself found statistics that you posted in the other thread: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/yearly-snapshot An insurance company survey that found at least 11% of fatal accidents are directly cause by cellphone usage. You can change your definition of the "myth" to adjust to the data, but the obvious facts remain: Cellphone use while driving is distracting, dangerous, and causes accidents. On a less tragic level it's also anti-social. Cellphone users are depending on attentive drivers to prevent accidents. There's a basic requirement of citizenship in modern society that people need to pull their own weight. Otherwise civility can't last. There needs to be a recognition of basic common decency. Part of that is to pay attention while driving and not make other people pay attention for you. Fortunately, cellphone use while driving is increasingly being outlawed. Unfortunately, it's not easy to catch talking or texting drivers, and probably most of the cops who should be doing it are on their own cellphones. They'd much rather sit and relax on the side of the road, talking to friends while they run scam speeding traps. For a simple reason: Radar guns provide easy proof of speeding. Catching people on cellphones is work.