Re: State Farm files patent for system to suppress calls and text while driving

On 6/10/24 02:56, Andrew wrote:

The myth is that cellphone use drastically increased the accident rate.

Please quote verbatim the person here who allegedly subscribes to such a myth. No one claims ANYTHING involving 'accident rates', you're the ONLY one who keeps regurgitating the topic of accident rates continuously diverting the discussion to accident rates that no one beside you even mentions. Are you a cell-phone lobbyist by any chance tasked to disrupt any thread threatening the zillions of dollars made by associated hardware, software or datamining interests?

The fact is they had no effect whatsoever on the accident rate.

Their effect on accident rates is NOT known (yet). It will maybe be known after a decade or more of legislation forcing providers to track and record all cell-phone traffic in moving cars and police to cross-check, correlate if applicable and reference such database info when writing every single accident report the world over.

There are reasons for that fact; but you have to accept the fact first,
before you can even begin to understand the effect of cellphones on
accident rates.

Accident stats including rates may include some but are NOT, never were nor will ever be all the facts or the facts, not even close.