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   XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: pmcook@gte.net   
      
   On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 05:46:19 +0000, Jolly Roger wrote:   
      
   >> 1. Cellphone use is distracting & distractions are dangerous   
   >> 2. Accident rates compiled over the past 50 years are reliable   
   >> 3. Cellphone ownership skyrocketed during a certain time frame   
   >>    & we assume a percentage of owners use them while driving.   
   >   
   > Of course you're ignoring the many factors unrelated to cell phone use that   
   > may decrease accident rates, because that's the only way your silly   
   > argument can work.   
      
   The elephant in the room is the fact the accident rate has not   
   shown even the slightest blip during the meteoric cellphone   
   ownership rise in the USA.   
      
   The onus isn't on me to explain that cellphone use has absolutely   
   no effect on that fact, since *nothing* is changing in the accident   
   rate, which has been kept for the past 50 years and which is   
   reliable data.   
      
   The onus is on those who "claim" that cellphones are dangerous to   
   use in vehicles to prove that they really have an effect in the   
   real world.   
      
   As you can see, none of you "can" prove that.   
   Because they don't.   
      
   The elephant in the room says so.   
      
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