Re: It's a myth that cellphone use caused the accident rate to rise in the USA

 > Andrew wrote:
 > How many of you are scientists; how many of you are morons?
 >
 > It's a myth that cellphone use caused the accident rate to rise in
the USA
 >
 > The only place that myth exists is in stupid people's minds,
 > since the main proponents of the myth are those with money to gain,

 > namely (a) injury lawyers, (b) insurance companies & (c)
ticketing police.
 >
 > In the accurate US Census Bureau records, what do you see happening
to the
 > accident rate before, during and after the meteoric rise in
cellphone
 > ownership in the United States?
 > 
https://www.google.com/search?q=us+census+accident+rate+statistics+by+year

 >
 > What do you see?
 > 
https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2010/compendia/statab/130ed/tables/11s1102.pdf

 >
 > Look at first-order effects, i.e., the accident rate per year.
 > 
https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/yearly-snapshot

 >
 > What do you see happening to the rate during skyrocketing cellphone
days?
 > 
https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/historical-fatality-trends/deaths-and-rates/

 >
 > HINT: US Accident rates trending down were wholly unaffected by
cellphones.

It is not a myth it is a fact. You get in the car
in no way you should answer that phone, unless your at a light and it
is
on speaker or your in park. Point being you could be distracted. You
might as well have a tablet-computer with a SIM-card
slot just for your car. Rather then you blasted phone. It is
distracting and not everybody have the ability to focus on the road
and some moron on the phone.
 

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