"Dave Hinz" wrote in message
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You are continuing to miss the point. You keep coming up
with examples that are unsafe for anyone, equally. Alcohol
can't NOT make you a worse driver. It's a biological
influence.

Sure?
What if you are a very nervous, highly strung, tense driver (stone-cold sober)
who typically over-reacts to normal stimuli (horns, backfires etc)?

One or two drinks (depressants) could calm you down sufficiently to control
this nervous over-reaction. Bring you back down to the community norm.
No more than one or two, mind.

Result: Improved driving.

Talking on a cellphone is only unsafe for people who are
unsafe drivers.

Maybe.
But: Talking on a cellphone requires the driver's attention. Maybe only a
small fraction of that attention, but it does take some of the sum total of
the driver's cognitive skills away from the road. Especially when answering a
call (picking up), dialling (deity forbid) or hanging up.

You can't NOT be distracted by using a cellphone.

Ok Ok
You and I have done it without incident hundreds of times.
But the next time?

There ain't no absolutes when dealing with human critters. Infinite shades of
grey.

--
Jeff R.
(light grey, tending to mid-light grey)