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Distracted Driving in Abu Dhabi

2014-12-01 19:42:51.555252+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

RT Taras Grescoe ‏@grescoe"

Distracted driving smoking gun: car crashes went down 40% in Abu Dhabi during 3-day Blackberry outage http://bit.ly/1HRylHt

The link is Wired: Car crashes in the UAE fell during Blackberry outage:

According to state-owned newspaper The National, there were 20 percent fewer accidents in Dubai and 40 percent fewer accidents in Abu Dhabi during the three days when BlackBerry services were down.

And, yes, the article does know that correlation is not cause and points to Daniel Simons talking about how variable the rates are.

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