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Uber Set Up a Curbside Breathalyzer and Drove Home Everyone Who Blew Over the Legal Limit

The rewards for drinking – beyond good, old-fashioned fun – are limited, but Uber has found a way to make that extra round at the bar quite the virtuous endeavour: the company's latest creative stunt offered free rides home to those who blew over the legal limit at a curbside breathalyzer

Here’s a cool concept: the more you drink, the closer you are to getting a free ride home. 

Or as Uber calls it, “You drink, we drive.”

That’s the fun idea behind the company’s latest creative campaign that offered Torontonians who’ve been out drinking after midnight when drunk driving accidents triple a safe ride home if they were over the legal limit. 

A curbside breathalyzer was set up in the city’s entertainment district to measure the alcohol content of anyone interested enough to stumble on over to the eye-catching kiosk.

And yes, they did send private drivers to collect the inebriated…

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