XPost: comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2022-05-08 5:12 p.m., Xeno wrote:   
   > On 9/5/2022 3:33 am, Alan wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > It is still a *distraction* from the primary function the driver should   
   > be focussed on - driving.   
   >   
      
   Sure...   
      
   ...but if you want to go down that road, so is using or even listening   
   to the radio...   
      
   ...to say nothing of talking to a passenger.   
      
   Sorry, but there are such things in this world as "reasonable limits"   
      
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