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

micky wrote on Wed, 29 May 2024 17:40:06 -0400 :

Sorry.  I'll grant that I was confusing here.   My second line below was
written first, and it was clear, but then I wrote my first line."Most of
us here know that" which only addressed the accident rate, I guess, but
it had the effect of changing what my second line, It's your opinion,
seemed to refer to. 
 
It's your opinion that cellphone usage had no measurable effect on the
accident rate.
 
Because you only look at the whole accident rate and you don't have the
data or you don't bother to look at the accident rate caused by cell
phones.
 
Or perhaps you think that whatever the amount of car damage, and the
number of injurie and deaths is so small, it's worth ridiculing.  I
think no matter what the number is, it's important and efforts should be
made, and are being made, to lower them.

My statement is simply one of fact. Well known fact. Reliable fact.
And, no, it's not an opinion. It's a fact. Supported by reliable cites.

If you believe that the accident rate in the USA has shown any direct
effect (either up or down) due to the tremendously different fact that
cellphones went from 0% saturation to nearly 100% in only a few years....

You're not going to find that supposed direct effect in the actual facts.
If you could, you would have by now.
Yet you didn't.
Because you can't.

You can't dispute facts by saying all facts you don't like don't exist.