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It seems like you're effectively saying MADD didn't work. Drunk driving never became less than it was in the late 1970s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers_A
by greggman2 7y ago
It seems like you're effectively saying MADD didn't work. Drunk driving never became less than it was in the late 1970s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers_Against_Drunk_Driving https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers_Against_Drunk_Driving
The claim they lowered drunk driving deaths by 1/2. I have no easy way to verify that but if true it certainly suggests people's behavior can be changed
- chongli 7y agoI don't know about your area, but where I live the police set up checkpoints along common routes home from popular bars/restaurants to catch drunk drivers. Drunk drivers get caught extremely often and many of them lose their licence for long periods of time. This does not discourage drunk driving as much as you would think. It does remove a lot of the drunk drivers from the road by force, however.
- beerandt 7y agoMADD only worked in the sense that it made some mothers feel somewhat absolved of whatever guilt they felt for losing a child. Their statistical claims are quite ridiculous, though. Edit: Claiming credit moreso than flawed statistics, although both are highly questionable.