A Push To Have Cars Say 'No' To Drunk Drivers

As cars become smarter and safer, some members of Congress want to require them to be built to prevent drunk driving.

 Sobering new data on drinking and driving: 15% of US alcohol-related motor vehicle fatalities involve alcohol under the legal limit

A new study found that motor vehicle crashes involving drivers with blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) below the legal limit of 0.08 percent accounted for 15% of alcohol-involved crash deaths in the United States. Of these deaths, 55% of fatalities were individuals other than the drinking driver, and these crashes were more likely to result in youth fatalities compared with crashes above the legal BAC limit.

 The designated driver role gets a modern update, covering dangers from COVID-19 to social media

The designated driver (DD) is a successful public health strategy dating back to the late 1980s. To better reflect the realities of today’s society, now is a good time to evolve the initiative to help mitigate the harms tied to broader substance use and beyond drinking and driving.

Getting to zero alcohol-impaired driving fatalities: an insider’s view

Beefing up on-the-road sobriety checkpoints are one way to reduce deaths linked to driving while intoxicated.

Impaired Driving: Get the Facts

Every day, 29 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver.1 This is one death every 50 minutes.1 The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than $44 billion.2 Thankfully, there are effective measures that can help prevent injuries and deaths from alcohol-impaired driving.

A new, and dangerous, kind of distracted driver

They hog lanes, ignore emergency vehicles, and treat their cars like multi-tasking way stations. That culture of entitlement makes drivers a new kind of menace.

Alcohol impairs driving more than marijuana

A single glass of wine will impair your driving more than smoking a joint. And under certain test conditions, the complex way alcohol and cannabis combine to affect driving behaviour suggests that someone who has taken both may drive less recklessly than a person who is simply drunk. These are the findings of a major new study by British transport researchers.

Canada tops list of developed countries for rate of impaired-driving fatalities

Canada led all nations with alcohol impairment involved in 33.6 per cent of its road fatalities, more than the U.S., New Zealand and Australia at about 31 per cent, and vastly higher than the average rate of 19 per cent.

Drunk driving laws don’t match the research

Drunk driving is a major public health problem in the U.S. In 2014 nearly one-third of the nation’s 32,675 traffic fatalities were alcohol-related. This means a completely preventable death happened every 53 minutes in this country.

Drunk Driving vs High Driving

Drunk driving or driving under the influence of drugs is a crime, but what defines a DUI (Driving under the influence) or DWI (Driving while intoxicated)? The following infographic explains what is considered illegal in both Canada and the USA, and what are the differences.

It's Time to Get Serious About Deterring Texting While Driving

Study after study has shown that texting while driving is just as dangerous as drunk driving. So if laws are meant to be about protecting the populace, why the disconnect?

Justices Against Drunk Driving

The U.S. Supreme Court approved warrantless breath tests but forbade warrantless blood tests during DUI arrests.

More Drivers Now Stoned Than Drunk, Survey Says

There’s little question that the nation’s highways are safer than ever, with traffic-related fatalities at historic lows. However, one trend that has safety officials concerned is that operating a motor vehicle under the influence of prescription drugs or marijuana is fast exceeding drunk driving in the U.S.

The Ultimate Guide to Drowsy Driving

A National Sleep Foundation Poll, relating to planes, trains, automobiles and sleep, sought to identify how much sleep people who operate a vehicle for a living manage to get on average, and how it affects their driving performance.

The Worst Countries In The World For Drunk Driving

Even though fatal accidents on Canadian roads have fallen 43 percent since 2000, the rate of death from alcohol impairment is still high for a developed nation at 34 percent of all road accidents. Across the border in the United States, 31 percent of all road deaths have been linked to alcohol consumption...

Uber Hasn't Had Any Impact on Drunk-Driving Deaths

More hired drivers should mean fewer drunk drivers. But a new study proves conventional wisdom wrong.

When Humans and Robots Share the Roads

When self-driving cars first hit the roads, safety may actually worsen before dramatically improving.