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Most evidence about cell-phone danger is, like Pena's story, anecdotal. While studies have shown that cell phones increase the risk of accidents, no hard data exist to prove how they compare to other driver distractions. But estimates do suggest that cell phones cause anywhere from 600 to 1,200 fatal crashes a year...
...first Karmapa, it is a mere 50 km, but a rocky two-and-a-half-hour drive, from the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The road is little more than a path distinguishable from the rest of the moonscape by the occasional tire track. My Lhasa-born Tibetan driver has to stop twice to ask farmers the way. Finally we reach a rickety bridge over a fast-running, turquoise river at the base of the monastery hillock. More than one monk has been swallowed up by the treacherous waters here as he leaned out to wash his clothes. Crossing, and ascending...
...causes may be murky, but it is clear that the man accused of the crime, 37-year-old Mamoru Takuma, has serious problems. He dropped out of high school in 1980, was discharged from the Air Force after one year for unknown reasons, and worked as a bus driver. In 1998 he was employed as a school janitor. A year later he was arrested on suspicion of drugging four teachers who were hospitalized after consuming tea he had brewed while working at an Osaka elementary school. Takuma was fired from his job, but he wasn't prosecuted: a judge ruled...
...driver of that car, I thought, is obviously incredibly drunk. So drunk, in fact, that he?s not even aware he?s driving. He?s just meandering down the highway trying his darnedest to stay on the gray strip that vaguely resembles the road. It was at this moment, when I was trying to decide whether to pull over and let the guy pass or pull over and call the police, that the car in question swerved back into view. I noticed the driver was talking animatedly, and as I carefully passed him, I could see he was holding...
...Just such complaints, after all, combined with a coldhearted cost-benefit analysis, have prompted many states to take a hard line approach to mobile phone usage. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 42 states have introduced laws barring drivers from using hand-held cell phones. Most lawmakers see the ban as a win-win proposition - while irrefutable supporting data are still in the pipeline, preliminary evidence suggests that drivers are more reckless when they?re on the phone. And if simply keeping people off their cell phones while they drive (or just putting the darn thing...