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Uber DOESN’T lower drink drive rates as drunks don’t order taxis say researchers (Excerpt)

Uber DOESN’T lower drink drive rates as drunks don’t order taxis say researchers (Excerpt)

 

    Theory that drunks opt to use their Uber to arrange route home is untrue

    That’s the verdict of researchers who have been analysing accident data

    US scientists looked at road death rates before and after the rise of Uber

 

Source: Daily Mail

By Matt Hunter

30 July 2016

 

Drink-driving has not been reduced by the popularity of Uber taxis, new research has found.

 

The theory that drunks opt to use their smartphones to arrange a safe route home instead of getting behind the wheel themselves is untrue.

 

Researchers analysed road death rates before and after the rise of Uber in America.

 

This calls into doubt earlier contrary claims made by the company last year.

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3716052/Uber-DOESN-T-lower-drink-drive-rates-drunks-don-t-order-taxis-say-researchers.html#ixzz4GFG7NsEA