From: turnkey@q.com
On Monday, March 10, 2014 12:22:37 AM UTC-7, Ashton Crusher wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:44:49 +1300, Your Name
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.
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
Clue: It is not a "few" people getting into accidents while on the phone.
> too busy on the phone to do either of those things. The vast majority
> of cell phone users have long ago learned how to use a cell phone and
> drive safely at the same time just as they learned to operate the
tests show that you cannot talk on a cp and pay attention to driving at the
same time.
> radio or adjust the side mirrors - both of which were distracting to
> them when they were new drivers but w...
Seconds vs minutes again.
Harry K
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