As I wrote in Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Stop for a moment and recognize an uncomfortable truth about something as reckless as drunk driving: Almost everyone who drives under the influence of alcohol-people who are driving impaired-reach their destination without crashing into anyone or anything. I hate this narrative, not only because it is wrong but because it empowers a status quo engineering and design approach that resists change. Of course, this is being picked up and run by media and advocates eager to blame broken and deviant humans for their shameful behavior, a narrative that feeds into cultural tensions in a way that generates clicks, but not thought or substantive action. The conclusion is that riskier people spend more time driving than safer people, which is thus a contributing factor to why deaths have increased while driving has gone down. The latest salvo comes from a report produced by AAA’s Foundation for Traffic Safety, which documents self-reported risky behavior and compares that to the amount of time people spent driving during the pandemic.
The Reckless Driver narrative is out of control.
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