Re: Cell phone driving = drunk driving

Pat who? wrote:
> [...]
> Gee, I wish. I remembe when it wasn't legal to have an answering
> machine or fax on a land line.  Those things, too, were illegal.
> Stupid, stupid laws.
> 
Illegal, or just that Ma Bell would not allow it on their lines?

> [...]
> Let's see, between the last three cars I've had I've driven about
> 525,000 miles.  Throw in motorcycles and other peoples' cars and
> figure since 1987 (yes, I've only owned three cars since 1987) plus
> milage before that and figure I've driven 700,000 miles.
> 
> In that entire time, I've had 1 fender-bender which was when I hit a
> deer that jumped in front of me.  It was sort of unavoidable.  So my
> chance of having an accident (if history is a predictor) is 1:700,000
> per mile or 1:10,950 per day.  Given those odds, I accept the added
> risk of 1.3X of talking on the phone, even though I think the number
> is probably too high.
> 
> Oh, by the way, last month in a wind storm; the wind go under my canoe
> and lift it up and blew it across the yard and it hit my car --
> leaving a dent.
> 
> Statistically, I have an equal chance of having a car accident as I do
> of being hit by a flying canoe.[...]

No it is not, because your sample size is too small for a valid analysis.

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