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

Danart wrote on Wed, 29 May 2024 19:17:02 +0000 :

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.

The main message I wanted to communicate is that people believe in myths
that have no basis in fact when you bother to double check the facts.

The myth is that cellphones are so dangerous to use in a vehicle that the
accident rate must have skyrocketed (and then leveled off) during the
period that ownership rates went meteorically from 0% to almost 100%.

And yet... the fact is... nothing happened to the accident rate.
My goal is to merely state the facts.

And the fact is there is no effect visible in the reliable accident rate
statistics of the skyrocketing rise in cellphone ownership rates.

No adult can discuss that topic until they understand & agree with the
facts, and only then a healthy debate can ensue as to why that's a fact.