Re: London incidents

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

In message <200507122211.j6CMBANM030410 () turing-police cc vt edu>, Valdis.Kletni
eks () 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
> 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