Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utfyzx!alias!pbreslin
From: pbreslin@alias.UUCP (Paul Breslin)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: solution to car phone problem (was Re: car fone)
Keywords: chasing ghosts
Message-ID: <456@alias.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 89 13:13:05 GMT
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Reply-To: pbreslin@alias.UUCP (Paul Breslin)
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It makes sense to me that there's no evidence of phones causing accidents.
First consider what small percentage of all accidents would involve a
car phone. Then what small percentage of that small percentage would admit
to yacking on the phone while they smashed into someone/thing.

I've often wondered why I've never heard statistics about accidents
caused from smoking while driving. Think about it. Cigarettes have been
around a lot longer than car phones. It's probably because a large percentage
of the people who might gather such statistics smoke while driving.
(Now, how many of them have car phones? :-)

But I also believe that a phone would provide a greater amount of
potential distraction than lighting a cigarette.