{"id":11243,"date":"2014-07-23T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11243"},"modified":"2014-07-20T02:31:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T06:31:37","slug":"could-uber-be-reducing-duis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/could-uber-be-reducing-duis\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Uber Be Reducing DUIs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/072014_0629_CouldUberBe1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"653\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Emily Badger looked at some data that suggests that Uber might be reducing DUIs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Services such as Uber are particularly popular with younger individuals that are more likely to go to bars.<\/li>\n<li>While these individuals could always have taken cabs, there is some evidence that indicates that Uber users aren&#8217;t just using it in lieu of cab rides \u2013 they&#8217;re actively expanding the market for them.<\/li>\n<li>Uber claims that its arrival in Seattle helped reduce DUIs by about 10%.<\/li>\n<li>Data from San Francisco also indicates that DUIs trended downwards after Uber and other quasi-taxi services were launched.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the caveats of the numbers, the role that the recession might have played in boosting DUIs, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2014\/07\/10\/are-uber-and-lyft-responsible-for-reducing-duis\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2014\/07\/10\/are-uber-and-lyft-responsible-for-reducing-duis\/\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Badger looked at some data that suggests that Uber might be reducing DUIs: Services such as Uber are particularly popular with younger individuals that are more likely to go to bars. While these individuals could always have taken cabs, there is some evidence that indicates that Uber users aren&#8217;t just using it in lieu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/072014_0629_CouldUberBe1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11246,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243\/revisions\/11246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}