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Originally Posted by wwmiv
Oh, and since the economic downturn happened right before Uber and Lyft became a thing, the increases in drunk driving you've seen have almost certainly (given my read of existing published literature -- and let's not get coy here, I'm an academic myself in the high ivory towers so I don't get cute I get drop. dead. gorgeous.) been caused by those other factors such as economic recovery and continued population growth -- it's just that the effect that Uber and Lyft's has had has not been enough to offset those other factors.
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Which economic downturn? 2008?
Or the one that's been hitting us in the last half of 2015 and onward? Using that theory, we'd be expecting DUIs to be going _down_ now.