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Re:Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving by rbcgerard on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:06AM (#14050584)
Actually one of the things that's most interesting about this study is that it's a study of NYC - where access to public transport might be the best in the United States.

Purely supposition on my part but my guess is that the market ride sharing services are capturing are suburbanites who are actually paying $50 to go to NJ/LI/CT as opposed to driving - as it's hard to imagine many locals driving anywhere, let alone drunk driving. The staten island graph is curious though (does it mean there is no non-locals visiting?

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Re:Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving by tedmiston on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:45AM (#14050945)
> NYC - where access to public transport might be the best in the United States

Same with access to taxis… being able to just walk outside and find one vs in many other cities having to call one (and have their phone number already) and wait.

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