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Drunk driving causes 10,000 deaths/year according to the article. How many are caused by the factors you mention? Doubtless some, but it's clearly not our top p
by zeroonetwothree 11y ago
Drunk driving causes 10,000 deaths/year according to the article. How many are caused by the factors you mention? Doubtless some, but it's clearly not our top priority, especially given that it's much easier to give someone a breathalyzer test than to check for "stupidity" or "tiredness".
- dllthomas 11y agoI expect quite a few are caused by tiredness specifically. I would not be surprised if it exceeded the drunk driving numbers (although I wouldn't be terribly surprised if it failed to either).
- bmelton 11y agoTo be fair, tiredness is likely attributable to a great deal of road related injuries, but it isn't tracked because being tired isn't a criminal act. I'm not saying you're wrong, per se, but suggesting that you're right due to the absence of evidence is premature. That said, while I don't know how official these numbers are, the NHTSA attributes 100,000 accidents to driver fatigue per year, and while the victim count is currently lower than your assertion for drunk driving, I think that driving while fatigued is underreported for the reasons I mentioned above.
- stickfigure 11y agoDrunk driving causes 10,000 deaths/year Here's part of the problem. The actual statistic is that 10k deaths occur where one driver had a BAC of 0.08 or higher. It's purely an assumption that these deaths would not have occurred if the drivers were sober. Some, certainly; some, certainly not. We need better information. The discussion lacks "scientific integrity", as Feynman would put it.