Talking On Cell Phones While Driving Saves Lives!
Friday, July 23, 2010 1:06:24 AM
It turns out that using your cell phone while driving is actually good for you. I’m being facetious of course. We’ve all had our run-ins with morons on the road who are completely oblivious to what’s going on around them…or sometimes we play the role of the moron (if you are in an area where drive-and-dial is legal).
Cell phones have become ubiquitous in this country yet they are not proving to be a major cause of automobile fatalities as I would have expected. Below, you’ll see the two trend lines for percent of wireless penetration (pulled from CTIA website) and automobile fatalities (pulled from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) between 1995 (when most of you hadn’t gotten your first cell phone) to 2008.
Obviously, this is a weak inverse correlation, but aren’t you at least a little bit surprised that fatalities are trending downward since 1995? Good news for those of us who already know that the best way to play it safe while driving is to pay more attention to those text messages we’re getting!
