On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 13:00:53 +1100, Rod Speed wrote:

Nothing *highly unproven* about the FACT that texting while driving is
absolutely guaranteed to be harder to do than driving without texting at
all.

Look. Eating a banana is harder to do while texting, but you can still
do it without slipping on the floor.

Driving is so easy that almost every single person can do it.
Driving while distracted is impossible NOT to do.

Nobody has ever driven a single mile without some distraction.
There are literally thousands of distractions every mile you drive.

You handle them.

For most stupid people, they'd *think* cellphone are a *big* distraction.
So, with *huge* increases in cellphone ownership, you'd expect a
correspondingly huge increase in cellphone use, where you'd expect
a correspondingly huge increase of distractions, where you'd expect a
correspondingly huge increase in the accident rate.

I would too.
It *sounds* logical.

But nobody on the planet can *find* these new accidents.
Not even this biased study can find them.

What does *that* tell you?