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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   "Paul M. Cook"  wrote in message   
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   > On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 11:41:51 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:   
   >   
   >> It would be more accurate to say that the fatality rate keeps   
   >> dropping for other reasons, much better designed cars and   
   >> roads and that has swamped any effect seen with the   
   >> massive increase in the use of cellphones when driving.   
   >   
   > Since the data is only well known for the USA, I have only   
   > been discussing accident rates in the USA.   
   >   
   > I never once discussed fatality rates.   
   > We're only talking accidents.   
   >   
   > Specifically, since the number of accidents per year are a factor   
   > of the number of miles driven per year, we're only talking about   
   > accident rates.   
   >   
   > Accidents beget the injuries and fatalities, so injuries are a second   
   > order problem. If people can't even understand accident rates,   
      
   They understand them fine. Its you that doesn’t understand   
   that the accident stats are completely dominated by the   
   massive reduction seen due to better roads and more   
   recently the lack of a need to report all accidents.   
      
   > there is zero chance they'll understand fatality and injury rates.   
      
   That mangles the real story utterly.   
      
   > Nobody can refute the USA accident rate data since it's reliable data   
   compiled without agenda that has been compiled accurately before,   
      
   But is dominated by the massive drop in the accident rate   
   over time, particularly with the more serious accidents that   
   involve more than just a scrape when parking etc.   
      
   > during and after the meteoric rise in cellphone ownership in the USA.   
      
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