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How is this even up for speculation? Why is there a need to quantify this with a study? Of course it curbs drunk driving. When you have better options, they're
by deftturtle 10y ago
How is this even up for speculation? Why is there a need to quantify this with a study? Of course it curbs drunk driving. When you have better options, they're used.
- manarth 10y agoHow is this even up for speculation? Why is there a need to quantify this with a study? Legislation and governance is influenced by statistics. If a City Hall meeting is discussing legislating against Uber, and a taxi commission presents a paper demonstrating that Uber will cost $X in economic loss to the commission, it behooves Uber to present a competing analysis: showing $Y savings relating to drunk driving (or whatever else they can show). On the face of it, it seems sad that everything - even the cost of human life - is quantified. But it is a rational argument when making trade-offs: "This new pill is better than aspirin." "OK, let's use that instead of aspirin." Vs "This new pill is 0.1% better than aspirin." "How much does it cost?" "Ten times the price of aspirin." "OK, so the effect is 0.1% better, but we can only treat a tenth of the number of patients? Better stick with aspirin."
- macey 10y agoSeriously. No shit it helps.