Algeria Horan wrote:

On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 00:56:59 +1100, Gordon Levi wrote:

I'm sure you posted all this to make a point. What is it?

While most people only care about fantasy, I only care about facts.

Both in Australia, and in the United States, the fact is that cellphones
aren't any more distracting than talking to a passenger, which means that
cellphones are just another distraction added to an already long list of
(more distracting) distractions.

Says so right he
"NHTSA Distracted Driving 2014 Summary of Statistical Findings"
https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api...ication/812260

The result of adding yet another distraction to an already long list of
distractions is not even measurable in the real world!

Fact is the _use_ of cellphones while driving in the USA is consistently at
about 2% for texting and at abuot 5% for handheld use while driving (with
visible-headset use roughly around half of a percent):
https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api...ication/812326

That means, even though millions of miles have been driven in the USA with
the user looking directly at cellphones (texting) or talking on a cellphone,
the accident rate in both Australia and in the United States has not been
affected one bit by the utter explosion of cellphone use in both countries.

Says so in the OP, and says so right here for the USA:
http://www2.census.gov/library/publi...es/12s1109.xls
More of the same can be found he https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/#

I asked for the point of your previous post but instead you just
repeat your "facts". What is your conclusion? Why did you bother to
recite your facts?

Fact is, anyone who _thinks_ cellphones "cause" accidents, probably also
believes that a WWII Bomber _was_ found on the moon!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...nday_Sport.jpg

That is not a fact! If you ask anybody at The U.S. Department of
Transportation that "is leading the effort to stop texting and cell
phone use behind the wheel" you will find that _none_ of them believe
that a WWII Bomber _was_ found on the moon.