XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   "B00ze"  wrote in message   
   news:n45daa$b3e$1@dont-email.me...   
   > On 2015-12-07 20:46, Anthony R. Gold  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Mon, 07 Dec 2015 20:02:12 -0500, "Paul M. Cook"    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Mon, 07 Dec 2015 15:35:05 -0800, mike wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> I'd call that "fortunately"!!!   
   >>>> I've had more than a few close calls when people backed out   
   >>>> of their driveway while talking on the phone.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Talk on the phone or drive...pick ONE.   
   >>>   
   >>> Oh shit. Another idiot.   
   >>>   
   >>> There's absolutely zero reliable evidence that talking on the phone   
   >>> while driving causes *any* detectable change in the accident rate   
   >>> whatsoever.   
   >   
   > Of course, the statistic should be "talking while driving" NOT necessarily   
   > "over a cellphone."   
      
   Its more complicated than that, because when you are talking to   
   someone else in the car, they can stop talking when something   
   that the driver should be concentrating on happens outside the car.   
      
   > [snip]   
   >   
   >> I'm another idiot, and so are the NHTSA and CDC.   
   >   
   > +1   
      
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