Re:talking on mobile as dangerous as drunk driving (Score 1)

That said, cell phone use while driving is dangerous, but comparing it to intoxication isn't useful. Of course it's useful. There has been a decades long campaign to (successfully) convince people that driving while intoxicated is too dangerous to be acceptable behavior. Comparing other dangerous forms of driving (driving while under-slept, driving while talking on the cell phone) to DWI is an appropriate and effective way to communicate to people just how dangerous those activities are. People don't have good intuitive understanding of statistics, so (good) analogies can be more useful.