London incidents

Wed Jul 13 01:25:43 UTC 2005

In message <200507122211.j6CMBANM030410 at turing-police.cc.vt.edu>, Valdis.Kletni
eks at vt.edu writes:
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>On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:26:33 +1200, Mark Foster said:
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>> "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.
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>And the *other* 2/3rd of the calls were made on what, exactly?
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>A land line just before departure, followed by a crash less than 10 minutes in
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>the drive? (This would tie in well with the "agitated by the phone call" theor
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>advanced by JC Dill...)
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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