From: nospam@nospam.invalid   
      
   In article <383d3599-f405-445d-a9f5-28805cd35aff@googlegroups.com>,   
   Harry K  wrote:   
      
   > >   People were having car accidents LONG before there were cell phones.   
   > > If cell phones were particularly dangerous the highways would be awash   
   > > in blood.  But they aren't.  Think about it. 15 years ago hardly   
   > > anyone had a cell phone.  Now EVERYONE has one and a lot of them are   
   > > used while driving.  Yet over that same 15 years the accident and   
   > > fatality rate has continued is slow reduction with less and less   
   > > accidents every year.  Yet we are to believe that cell phone users are   
   > > this HUGE deadly menace and there are MILIOONS and MILLIONS of them   
   > > out there driving around.  The statistics simply don't support the   
   > > "sky is falling" nonsense put out by the idiots.  The simple fact is   
   > > that sure, a few people using cell phones DO get into accidents, just   
   > > like they would have before except before they would have been   
   > > swapping out a CD or unwrapping a hamburger at the time, now they are   
   >   
   > Seconds vs minutes but do keep ignoring the time involved in all your   
   > attempts to justifiy cp use.   
      
   nobody looks away from the road for minutes.   
      
   > What do you think the accident rate would look like if cp and other   
   > technologic play toys were banned? That there is a declining number of   
   > accidents goes exactly nowhere to eliminate cp use as a major cause of the   
   > ones that do happen   
      
   about the same.   
      
   bad drivers will be bad drivers with or without additional devices.   
      
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