Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 23:30:37 +0000 Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 19:30:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird From: bad sector Subject: Re: It's a myth that cellphone use caused the accident rate to rise in the USA Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,ca.driving References: <3ce32e95-3359-c3f6-7c34-6909bcb82a5b@invalid.nospam> <60kd5jd0t4arfg79vtgs9ss7p5iel29d2t@4ax.com> Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-vPWvRwaEeIHHpDtYk4tsfIF13BjY/C8dmMgvQd21W4YQYz8we+j5mB9//xMqb1UkShspjlxZzcH9Fx0!bUGWid2foNbsxVfBL/lZh5wwzz1TvriBiBDqbtJW1LAFAFO/fkQCcXMfIEzGlWx7f5svsfey94nM 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: 2416 On 5/29/24 17:57, Andrew 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. Technically that is correct because accident statistics limited to reported accidents cannot in any way be linked to any data limited to general cell-phone ownership. Yet legislators are nixing TV in the front seat but not digital displays 'not necessary' to operation (replacing necessary steam-gauge dials); they have climbed down from the tree and are now walking on three, a few more miles to go.