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   XPost: comp.mobile.android, comp.mobile.ipad   
   From: liamoconnor@example.com   
      
   On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 23:34:55 -0500, nospam wrote:   
      
   > it hasn't because it's almost impossible to prove.   
      
   I agree so we shouldn't look for accidents "caused" by   
   cell phone distraction because those statics can be fudged   
   in both directions.   
      
   I think we should just look at accidents. Period.   
   (or deaths/injuries). These statistics are already   
   compiled by people who don't have a cellphone agenda.   
      
   Then, we should look at cellphone usage during that   
   same period, starting from 0 cellphone usage, to today.   
      
   If cell phone usage is "causing" accidents, we *must*   
   see accident statistics going up.   
      
   Of course, there can be mitigating factors, e.g., we   
   don't have cell phone usage *in the car* statistics; but,   
   even without that, the number of accidents *has* to go   
   up if cell phones usage is inherently dangerous.   
      
   If the accidents aren't going up, then, well, then   
   there's the answer.   
      
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