Frankly, it'd make naff all difference to the accident statistics to tighten the drink drive limits; all your going to do is criminalise more people who've not done anything wrong. Tiredness, lack of driver skill (and sense), improper vehicle maintainance, bad road design and upkeep and the like are all more significant contributions to road accidents that someone having a single drink and then driving.
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Assume one unit an hour elimination from the time you stop drinking and it's unlikely you'll have a problem. Of course it's far more complicated than that, and many people underestimate how many units of alcohol in a drink (most pub pints are actually about 2.4-2.6 rather than 2 for instance), but it's about the only clue I can give you.
The problem with testers is that everyone would drink up to the limit on the tester, and as has been pointed out, your driving is impaired long before you hit the limit. Tests have shown that risk-taking increases after a single drink.
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as many times so people dont forget to lynch the scumbag when he gets out of prison.
Alcohol affects everyone in different ways due to height, weight, what youve eaten etc. Sometimes after a pint if ive eaten nothing ( thats not to say im drunk) i can feel it affecting me and there is no way i would even consider driving - having said that i never drink and drive anyway.
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Like I said, I tried that but either underestimated or it took longer to be processed by my system. Either way I had no idea if I should be driving or not.
Testers can always be abused if they're not used correctly, but I think in my situation it would be useful to know if I need to push other commitments out the way a little longer so that I really am safe to drive.
It's also only even vaguely true when you have significant quantities of alcohol in your system; low levels can persist for much longer. And it varies by individual to a large degree.
The woman who said "I actually think I'm a safer driver when I've had a drink because I make sure I concentrate 100%" or something. What a stupid thing to say! Why aren't you concentrating 100% all the time when you're driving?
That was the worst "argument" for drink driving I've ever heard.
That was the worst "argument" for drink driving I've ever heard.
Because you concentrate 100% all the time on driving and never change the radio/cd player or talk to a passenger
But yup, it was a daft program with some silly "test" at the end.