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.

Your inside an accident. Somebody ask you

1) was your phone on.
2) what were you doing with your phone

The moment you answer two you have become liable. Your phone could be
one like your radio and you could be talking
but your eyes have to be on the road. Not facetime, not tv, not xxx.

Even if your talking on the phone and your driving the question next
would be.

3) what were you talking about.

EXAMPLE: My aunt-in-law literally crashed her car head on with a tree
and light a blaze. If they check the phone bill how much do we want to
bet.

A. She was talking with another woman that told her she is having her
husbands baby.

or

B. She was talking with her mother ( the in-law ) who do not like her
husband due to his appearance.

So imagine if there was no phone. Imagine if she got the news after
she came home. Imagine if talking to one of these idiots "made
her unbalanced in calculations ( thinking ).

..............

My mother drives still and she has become obsessive over TV programs (
Prime, Netflix, Disney+, etc ).

Imagine if the phone rings and it displays a message "Emergency
please mom pick up".

My dad got into an accident one time ( not phone related ) but imagine
how much worst it could be.
 

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