From Melissa Grimes:

In 2009, 10,839 people were killed due to alcohol-impaired drivers.
This article asks why Google and Apple are allowed to carry apps that tell drivers where sobriety checkpoints are located? The main purpose of a sobriety check point is not to catch a incredibly large number of drunk drivers, but instead to let drivers know that there are randomly placed checkpoints out there are and to detour them from driving drunk in the first place. While Blackberry has removed their version of the checkpoint app, Google and Apple have not. The apps that Google and Apple have pin point the exact location of these checkpoints and eliminate their purpose all together. Technology isn't exactly working in the favor of the general populations safety on this issue. But Joseph Scott, chief executive of PhantomAlert, a checkpoint alert app, defended real-time alerts of sobriety checkpoints as a convenience to law-aiding citizens who do not want to be delayed by a checkpoint. He said, "Assuming someone who gets a D.U.I checkpoint alert if going to drink and drive is like assuming anyone who owns a gun is a murder."

Source: "Helping Drunken Drivers Avoid Tickets, But Not Wrecks," NYTimes