In message <200507122211.j6CMBANM030410@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>, Valdis.Kletni eks@vt.edu writes:
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On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:26:33 +1200, Mark Foster said:
"Using phone company records, researchers assessed phone use immediately before the crash. They found a third of calls in the 10 minutes before the crash were made on cellphones.
And the *other* 2/3rd of the calls were made on what, exactly?
A land line just before departure, followed by a crash less than 10 minutes in to the drive? (This would tie in well with the "agitated by the phone call" theor y advanced by JC Dill...)
Sure, but there have been other studies *on simulators* that show similar effects: it's the call, not the handset, that causes the problem. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb