XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: pmcook@gte.net   
      
   On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 16:49:25 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:   
      
   > OK. But you still have the same problem with the fact that   
   > the accident rate has dropped very dramatically because   
   > of the better design of the roads with divided roads and   
   > motorways/freeways particularly and that has swamped   
   > the undeniable effect of drink driving, using the cellphone   
   > when driving and other distractions like car radios etc.   
      
   I never said otherwise.   
      
   The problem is that the *numbers* that are expected from   
   tens of thousands of people driving as if they were drunk   
   that would be expected from the horrid predictions of the   
   so-called distracted-driving "studies" would overwhelm   
   those slow-but-steady improvements.   
      
   Besides the overwhelming of those numbers, there would   
   also be a huge effect in *timing* (cellphone ownership   
   has a beginning, rise, steadying off, and then plateau).   
      
   That *none* of this appears in the record means any effect,   
   if any effect exists at all, is minuscule.   
      
   Even if we allow your argument that other factors overrode   
   the data, the effect is still minuscule, if it's real.   
      
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