Uber & Lyft might be among among the reasons why DUI arrests have gone down

See DUI arrests in South Florida plummet. Uber, Lyft, millennials among the reasons why by Charles Rabin of The Miami Herald. Excerpts:

"Nationally, a 2017 study found mixed results in determining whether ride-sharing is responsible for a lower DUI rate or accidents. Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania took a look at four cities that had ride-sharing services, stopped, then started the service up again.

The results varied in data from the years 2013 to 2016. When ride-sharing was available, DUI’s dropped in Portland, Oregon, by almost 60 percent, the study found. Similar numbers were found in San Antonio, Texas. But the numbers didn’t change much in Reno, Nevada, a tourist mecca. The researchers also found little change in Las Vegas, because, like in Reno, the population is swollen with out-of-towners who take taxis, public transportation or walk."

"There have been only a limited number of studies analyzing whether ride-sharing contributes to a decline in drunk driving. In 2015, MADD teamed up with Uber and found that drunk-driving crashes for people under 30 years of age decreased by 6.5 percent in markets where ride-sharing was launched. Two years later, a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found a correlation between ride-sharing and a decline in drunk driving but not in every city."

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