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   Message 116,749 of 117,728   
   Alan to Andy Burnelli   
   Re: Real information on brakes (was Re:    
   08 May 22 10:33:48   
   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2022-05-08 8:46 a.m., Andy Burnelli wrote:   
   > Andy Burnelli wrote:   
   >   
   >> Intuition is a terrible thing.   
   >   
   > Don't even get me started on the "cellphones cause accidents" intuition, by   
   > the way, as monkeys intuit all sorts of stuff that doesn't show up in   
   > independent statistics outside {police,insurance,law} politics.   
   >   
   > If someone wants to claim "cellphones cause accidents", I only ask them for   
   > one fact, which they never can produce... and which is the only fact that   
   > matters.   
   >   
   > Marketing and politics takes advantage of people's emotions & intuition.   
      
   This isn't marketing.   
      
   It's quite obvious logic.   
      
   Reading text messages is not something you want people to be doing while   
   driving.   
      
   Writing them on a tiny smartphone onscreen keyboard is insane.   
      
   Handsfree phone use with your smart assistant reading messages...   
      
   ...sure, that's safe enough.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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