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• jellicle 16y ago
  If they were, planes would be crashing left and right. They aren't. Who are you going to believe, some engineers writing in a magazine or a massive experiment conducted over a period of 20 years involving every single passenger flight? Tens of millions of flights per year. Cell phones on every single one of them. No crashes due to cell phones. Cell phones do not cause unacceptable interference with airplanes. Q.E.D.
  • maurycy 16y ago
    Safety is operated by statistics, not boolean logic. Things are not either safe or unsafe. It all depends on trade-offs, and what risks we can accept in exchange of other values, such as comfort. The article mentionds, though, two worrying things such as the bias in investigations and ongoing GPS technology usage increase. I would also stress that it _might be not_ linear. Combined risk of few hundrends of turned on cell phones is not a mere multiplication of risk for a single device.