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In message <[email protected]>, Valdis.Kletni [email protected] writes: > >--==_Exmh_1121206268_8796P >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >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
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