From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Calvin Henry-Cotnam  wrote:   
   >Stephen Sprunk (stephen@sprunk.org) said...   
      
   >>Actually, studies show that the accident rate is just as high when the   
   >>driver is having a conversation with someone in the car as with someone   
   >>on the other end of a phone call.   
      
   >Please cite the studies if you are making a point with them.   
      
   >My point was that it has become a natural reaction in most people to   
   >continue to focus on a telephone conversation at a level which draws   
   >mental resources away from an issue that requires the most of those   
   >resources. The same does not occur when in a conversation with someone   
   >present.   
      
   >I was following up to a post that commented on how the expectations of   
   >people making a call to someone expect an immediate interruption of   
   >what they are currently doing in a way that someone present would not.   
   >I commented that I believe that this expectation tends to affect the   
   >way people react when on the receiving end of a telephone call, and then   
   >opined that this extends to the issue of using a phone while driving.   
      
   That has to do with whether the called party answers the call, which   
   the calling party does not control, so not comparable.   
      
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