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Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me!zougas
From: zougas@me.utoronto.ca ("Athanasios(Tom) Zougas")
Subject: Re: solution to car phone problem (was Re: car fone)
Message-ID: <89Sep12.234402edt.19920@me.utoronto.ca>
Summary: leave the poor car phone alone
Keywords: anecdote
Organization: Mechanical Engineering, U of Toronto
References: <1989Aug30.104132.22252@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <150006@teecs.UUCP> <1114@jtsv16.UUCP> <7669@microsoft.UUCP> <202@bmers58.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 89 23:43:54 EDT

In article <202@bmers58.UUCP> hwt@bmerh490.UUCP () writes:
>In article <7669@microsoft.UUCP> t-wader@microsoft.UUCP (Wade Richards) writes:
>>
>>There is NO evidence of car phone usage leading to accidents.
>>
>Well, no stats, but a friend of mine bent his car (Audi 5000)
>into the gaurd rail because his car phone rang at a time he'd 
>rather not have been distracted.  $1000 damage to car, $50 fine

What does he do when someone honks, have a heart attack? :-)

There are good drivers and there are bad drivers. A good driver
turns off his car phone when he does not want to be disturbed.

Tom.
p.s. next thing you're going to tell me is I can't read the paper
while I'm driving :-)

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