Drinking is a luxury/choice/privilege. That's the bit that bugs me about drink driving: it's not an accident, nor is it due to hardship. Plain ole selfishness that often kills innocent people.







Throw the book at drunk drivers.

 

I don't drive drunk. If I'm setting out to drink, I have someone to drive me. A few beers hanging out with friends isn't a big deal to me.



I'm a terrible drunk driver, I don't ever drive drunk. Below 0.08% I'm not impaired any more than if I skip coffee in the morning, or if I am distracted thinking about something.



Partly because if I've had anything to drink at all I instantly turn into the safest driver in the world. Huge follow distances, never more than a couple mph over the speed limit, both hands on the wheel, full concentration on driving. Below 0.08% BAC I'm safer than if I haven't had anything to drink.

 

You are the reason they want to lower the limit. I'd bet hard cash that if I tested your reaction times at .05, they'd be significantly slower than sober.



BTW, driving "safer" is how many cops spot drunk drivers. When I was a firefighter, I did a few ride-alongs. If we saw someone driving exactly the speed limit, always signaling, sitting straight up in their seat, both hands on the wheel on a Friday night, they were getting pulled over and given the "sniff test" to smell for alcohol.

 

I avoid the overly safe driver situation to avoid suspicion. I do always signal and sit in the proper driving position though regardless of condition.



The question should be: Can I pass a driving test while X



If yes, great. I GUARANTEE that I am a better driver than the average driver at 0.05%. I'm sure I'm better than the average 80 year old with a DL at 0.08% too.

 

I had to go to a defensive driving course once which turned out to be mixed with a DUI class. They showed the best video of people saying sh*t like that, then after a couple of shots they where ALL over the coarse (basically an auto-x style coned course.) It was hilarious!!





Also, I learned nothing.

 

1 alcoholic drink will impair your judgement. You may not feel it, but it does. PLEASE, everyone, stop drinking and driving. A $20 cab ride might feel like a waste because you're not "that drunk" but what if you crash and kill/injure someone? Get arrested and thrown in jail? Lose your license? $20 doesn't seem like such a waste now does it?



Check this out-



http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmont...h-charges.html



The lives of 5 families are changed for ever, all because some guy decided he was "OK" to drive home when he really wasn't.



I have a simple reason for never drinking and driving (besides the fact that it's stupid), I would lose my job. I work in HVAC. No license, no job.

 

Profiling safe driving habits? What should one do when they see a cop following them, drive erratic?



I have been in this situation on more than one occasion. Driving out in the country under the speed limit. Then a cop comes flying up behind you. What would you do? Pull over and throw yourself down face first on the pavement?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjBBDJ5OiT0

 

Trust me... it's VERY easy to tell the difference between a safe driver and a driver thinking, "Oh sh*t, cop!".

 

^ but it's very hard to tell the difference between a drunk driver and an azn.



or so I'm told. by azns.