Fifteen years ago this month, Here & Now co-host Jeremy Hobson aired his first NPR story on All Things Considered. He was an intern chasing a story about new signs cropping up at gas stations banning cell phones.
At the time, people were worried the phones would spark fires at the pump, but no credible case of that ever happening could be found.
In 2014, with billions of cell phones around the globe, we revisit that story from Jeremy’s early reporting days and try to figure out why those signs still hang at gas stations around the country.
Guest
- Stephen Fowler, electrostatic engineer and president of Fowler Associates.
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