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   Liam O'Connor to Alan Baker   
   Re: Finally, California drivers can read   
   01 Mar 14 13:10:58   
   
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   XPost: comp.mobile.android, comp.mobile.ipad   
   From: liamoconnor@example.com   
      
   On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:42:37 -0800, Alan Baker wrote:   
      
   > That's an assertion, not actual data.   
      
   I think the whole point is that there is no data that   
   reliably shows that the use of a cellphone is causing   
   accidents that wouldn't have otherwise been caused.   
      
   If that were true, since cellphone usage has spiked   
   massively from 0 to a lot, yet accidents, presumably,   
   haven't spiked correspondingly, then the whole point   
   is that cellphone use isn't causing these accidents.   
      
   If there is data that accidents rise with cellphone   
   use, then that's the data people need to show in order   
   to support these laws.   
      
   Otherwise, the Simitian laws are based on hysteria.   
      
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