Aha! My wife (credit where due) had a light-bulb moment a few years ago: “we should start a business called Duber, two people in the Duber car, who drive to the bar and then one of them drives you home in your car, the other follows along, to pick up the driver!” Drunk+uber get it? Of course it’s unworkable like that, but this way is a great idea.
Pre-covid there was a comparable parking service at the Philadelphia Airport. You would drive to their location and their driver would take you to the airport in your car and then take it back to park. Upon return, they would come to the airport in your car and you would just get in and drive home and their driver would be picked up by another driver in someone else's car.
This service has been in metro DC since at least 2011. I remember seeing ads on Craigslist then for the driver job, although there wasn't an ebike provided by the employer. The ad made it clear that the driver had to find their own way to/from the customer's locations.
Ebikes, definitely not. Maybe 2016-17 they started to spread?
I don't know that have-someone-else-drive-your-car will take off. IIRC, the (drunkish) driver has to actively call for a driver, and the price of the service is high enough that many drivers will just rationalize that they aren't all that drunk.
I *hated* this about the suburb I grew up and spent most of my 20's in. It was just so obnoxiously wrong.
I'm endlessly glad that I live in a walkable town now.
Physician here: 80mg/ml is .08 and then 20mg/ml would be .02
.08 is the American legal limit isn't it? So .02 is impossible not to meet if you've had anything to drink, pretty much?
Everyone metabolizes differently, but yeah, I'd assume a single drink would get you to .02. The toughest limits in the states are .05 in some places
Aha! My wife (credit where due) had a light-bulb moment a few years ago: “we should start a business called Duber, two people in the Duber car, who drive to the bar and then one of them drives you home in your car, the other follows along, to pick up the driver!” Drunk+uber get it? Of course it’s unworkable like that, but this way is a great idea.
Pre-covid there was a comparable parking service at the Philadelphia Airport. You would drive to their location and their driver would take you to the airport in your car and then take it back to park. Upon return, they would come to the airport in your car and you would just get in and drive home and their driver would be picked up by another driver in someone else's car.
Became an urban planner because of the absurdity of drinking and driving.
This service has been in metro DC since at least 2011. I remember seeing ads on Craigslist then for the driver job, although there wasn't an ebike provided by the employer. The ad made it clear that the driver had to find their own way to/from the customer's locations.
Ebikes weren't that much of a thing a decade ago were they? I've seen them explode in the last few years. Maybe that will make this more common.
Ebikes, definitely not. Maybe 2016-17 they started to spread?
I don't know that have-someone-else-drive-your-car will take off. IIRC, the (drunkish) driver has to actively call for a driver, and the price of the service is high enough that many drivers will just rationalize that they aren't all that drunk.
https://tv.apple.com/ca/episode/ruts-show/umc.cmc.6tfm23qqymgz43pozbjpyesh9
Not new. Top Gear USA worked for a company doing the mini-bike DD service in San Francisco in 2012.