"Too_Many_Tools" wrote in
s.com:

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The estimates of annual deaths reported in this week's article (2,600)
may well be low. The number, for U.S. deaths related to drivers using
cell phones, comes from a 2002 study by the Harvard Center for Risk
Analysis (HCRA). Researchers then estimated that the use of cell phones
by drivers caused approximately 2,600 deaths.

Ok. That works out to one fatality per billion miles driven. It hardly
seems like a crises to me.

But go ahead and legislate a little more freedom away. It's very trendy
these days.

Seeing as how you are seven times more likely to be killed in a plane crash
per mile travelled. And as a member of the general population you are just
as likely to be killed by a motorcycle as you are a cell phone weilding
driver, perhaps we should ban them as well.

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Dan

Quid Aere Perennius