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Re:Using Gowalla checkins to predict alcohol-related travel by jrockway on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @03:42AM (#2353513)
Probably not. The number of people driving drunk is much lower than the number of people driving distracted or driving stupid.
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Re:Using Gowalla checkins to predict alcohol-related travel by evolvingstuff on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @05:38AM (#2353664)
There may indeed be more distracted/stupid people, but the inebriated ones cause about twice the number of deaths overall in the US:

http://www.cdc.gov/MotorVehicleSafety/distracted_driving/ind...

http://www.cdc.gov/MotorVehicleSafety/Impaired_Driving/impai...

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