XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   Paul M. Cook  wrote   
   > 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.   
      
   You don’t know that tens of thousands are actually   
   stupid enough to talk on their phone while driving.   
      
   ALL you know is that most do own a cellphone now.   
      
   > 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).   
      
   Not if most aren't stupid enough to talk on the phone while driving.   
      
   > That *none* of this appears in the record means   
   > any effect, if any effect exists at all, is minuscule.   
      
   Or that most aren't actually stupid enough   
   to talk on their phone while driving.   
      
   > Even if we allow your argument that other factors overrode   
   > the data, the effect is still minuscule, if it's real.   
      
   Or that most aren't actually stupid enough   
   to talk on their phone while driving.   
      
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