Per ceg:
Where are all the accidents?

How about under reporting?

How could cell phone-generated accidents get into the system as such?

Guy I used to windsurf with bought the farm a couple of years ago when a
guy in an F-150 drove into him from the back at highway speed (i.e.
50-60 mph).

He was riding on a wide shoulder, bright clear day, no intersections.

I have a hard time imagining that the guy who killed him told the
investigating officer "Yeah, I was just so into this (cell phone
conversation/text message/email) that I drifted on to the shoulder and
drove right into the victim."

Same with the buy who almost got me on the Atlantic City Expressway a
couple years ago: I'm running the right lane, guy in the left lane just
starts drifting into me and I can see him holding something in one hand
and poking his finger at it with the other hand (steering with his
knees?).... I took the shoulder and avoided contact - but if there had
been an accident I would not have expected the other driver to 'fess up.

Same with the guy in a pickup truck that almost nailed me on my bike
several years ago. I was riding on a very large cross-hatched (no
cars) area. I saw him coming - intent on *something* between his
knees... I zigged, he didn't zag and then he drove right through the
space I was occupying... never looked up. If I had woken up dead that
day, I am pretty sure he would have some other explanation than "I was
absorbed in my cell phone".

And then there is the Canadian study that equated driving while talking
on a cell phone with some level of alcohol intoxication....
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Pete Cresswell

On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 20:54:36 -0400, (PeteCresswell) wrote:

And then there is the Canadian study that equated driving while talking
on a cell phone with some level of alcohol intoxication....

Do you see that anything that "proves* cellphone use while driving
is so dangerous just makes the entire paradox worse?

Clearly the accidents don't exist.
Clearly many of us feel (including me) that cellphone use contributes
to the accident rate.

But, if we can't find *any* increase in the accident rate, even if
we feel strongly that cellphone use should be contributing to the
accident rate, what does that tell us?

Do you see how your post just contributes to the paradox?
It makes the paradox even worse.

On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 20:54:36 -0400, (PeteCresswell) wrote:

How about under reporting?

I doubt accident rates are under reported only for the period
where cellphone ownership went from zero to 100% in the USA, and
then, magically, accident rates went back to proper reporting.

It's too convenient.

The answer isn't going to be *that* simple.