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Think you're safer because you talk on a hands-free cell phone while driving? Think again. Using either type of phone while trying to drive a car is roughly equivalent to driving with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.08%, which is high enough to get you arrested in any of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for driving under the influence. Folks who use hands-free cell phones in simulation trials also exhibited slower reaction times and took longer to hit the brakes than drivers who weren't otherwise distracted. Data from real-life driving tests show...
...logistics were not the only problem. This year’s alcohol policy—that of only allowing Beverage Authorization Teams (BATs) to distribute beer and confiscating all other alcohol—is credited with bringing down the number of hospitalizations from 30 in 2004 to one on Saturday. Both Undergraduate Council President John S. Haddock ’07 and Director of the Alcohol and Other Drug Services Office Ryan Travia claim that this shows how responsible students can be. But the improvements were hardly a result of individuals understanding the dangers of alcohol and making responsible decisions...
...interlocks is necessary because “the threat of arrest and punishment…is no longer working” to discourage drunk driving, according to officials cited by the Times. Of course, this article goes on to state that the number of alcohol-related fatalities has remained steady over the past decade. Given that the number of cars on the road and the number of miles driven have increased, this means that the number of fatalities per car and per mile—more pertinent statistics—have declined...
Moreover, much-quoted “alcohol-related” numbers are about as relevant to the problem of drunk driving as the ratio of cars to bumblebees. These numbers, rolled out by MADD like WWI howitzers, do not evaluate whether drinking actually contributed to the accident. So, if a sober driver hits a driver who had a beer at dinner, it is recorded as an “alcohol-related” accident. In fact, as noted by Radley Balko, a Cato Institute analyst, when the Los Angeles Times examined accident data in 2002, it found that only...
...test case cited as justification for MADD’s policy is New Mexico, which made the locks mandatory after a driver’s first DUI. The New York Times implies that the devices are responsible for N.M.’s 11.3 percent drop in alcohol-related fatalities last year, despite noting that “New Mexico was not the only state to record a decline in alcohol-related motoring deaths” and that other states “showed even bigger drops.” Furthermore, the rule did not take effect until June...