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   From: g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies   
      
   In message <2014031011461633808-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>   
     Savageduck  wrote:   
   > On 2014-03-10 15:39:45 +0000, Jolly Roger  said:   
      
   >> On 2014-03-10, Ashton Crusher  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.   
   >>   
   >> Yeah, and if cell phones and cars were the only things that existed in   
   >> this world, you *might* have a point. Please read and learn the   
   >> difference between correlation and causation. It's a very important   
   >> difference.   
      
   > The frequency of accidents has more than kept up with the increase in   
   > the numbers of vehicles and drivers on today's roads.   
      
   That is not true. Driver miles are increasing every year, traffic   
   accidents are decreasing.   
      
   > A large number   
      
   Perhaps. In nearly all cases it is impossible to say that with any   
   certainty.   
      
   > The thing that has reduced fatalities in those accidents has been the   
   > improvement in automobile design and safety features, not the least of   
   > which is seat belts.   
      
   Fatalities are down. Accidents are also down.   
      
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