dialing the numbers and adding them up

[mellowtron]

wow, this is depressing

from http://www.cars.com/news/stories/101804_storya_dn.jhtml?page=newsstory&aff=bostonA 2003 study by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis suggested a very real safety problem exists when drivers are paired with cell phones

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[darling_effect]

I'm in New Orleans! Our hotel is the cutest (it's pet-friendly and they have a little dish of milk bone dog biscuits when you check in!!). And holy shit, it's hotter than a frickin' sauna here. Now I know why I left!

[mellowtron]

hey!

I hope you're having fun! can't wait to hear more about it.

Zero net gain/loss?

[gund_kata]

If you think talking on a cell phone while driving is dangerous, you should see it when I get an e-mail on the road. Damn Blackberry.... :-D

Re: Zero net gain/loss?

[mellowtron]

Shame... shame on you. ;)

The thing that scares me is not people talking on their cellphones (I admit it. I've been guilty.) but the statement by Harvard that these injuries and lost lives are somehow "worth it" due to economic productivity. Yikes.

Re: Zero net gain/loss?

[gund_kata]

Yeah, it does go back to that question of what a human life is worth. Evidently the Harvard eggheads have it quantified - but what I find odd is that the losses negate the gains (or vice versa). Again, attaching dollar figures to lives and productivity seems like such an arbitrary exercise in rectal reach accounting.