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More Than 1 In 4 Car Crashes Involve Cellphone Use
schwit1 (797399) writes "Texting and driving is dangerous but a new survey finds talking on a cellphone while behind the wheel may be even worse. The National Safety Council's annual report found 26 percent of all crashes are tied to phone use, but noted just 5 percent involved texting. Safety advocates are lobbying now for a total ban on driver phone use, pointing to studies that headsets do not reduce driver distraction."
Making automatic transmissions illegal would be a good start.
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When I saw OP I could only sigh. This bullshit, all over again. Again.
People have been studying this in excruciating detail for years. While there is a strong correlation between cell-phone use and accidents, any evidence of causation is glaringly absent.
Instead, they propose that accidents are caused by drivers who are easily distracted... but if they weren't distracted by the cell phone, they'd find something else to get distracted over.
How do we know? Because THEY DO. Laws against cell phone use have not reduced accident rates. In areas where such laws were repealed, accident rates did not increase. There is literally NOTHING that shows talking on cell phones is a major cause of accidents.
(And by the way: if your area, like mine, has a law against holding the phone to your ear, but not against the use of hands-free devices, you may be comforted -- or not -- by knowing that there is no statistical difference in accidents between the two methods of phone use. None.)