As a lawyer, I support your personal advice that no one should be anywhere near the legal limit while behind the wheel. I advocate for 0 drinks before driving.

As a lawyer, I support your personal advice that no one should be anywhere near the legal limit while behind the wheel. I advocate for 0 drinks before driving. That said I want to correct a few things: 1. In many jurisdictions, including mine, you do not have the option to submit to a blood test. If the police demand a breath test, and you refuse, you will be charged for failure to blow, the penalty for which is, in many cases, the same as being charged with drunk driving. You can't say to the police "can't I just get a blood test instead" to get out of this failure to blow charge. 2. The intoxylizer breath testing devices are heavily guarded, the government and the company that makes them have refused to release the source code or the machines themselves for testing. The one time the court did order the source code to be turned over the company claimed they lost it. https://tampaduiattorney.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/cmi-lost-the-source-code-on-the-intoxilyzer-8000-now-what/ https://tampaduiattorney.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/cmi-lost-t... Under such circumstances, it is unrealistic to think that real objective and meaningful tests will be done to establish the validity of these machines. 3. I'm not the one telling people that there is a legal limit and they should be below it. I'm telling people not to drink at all. It's the government that made up this stupidity about legal limits and it seems to be the least we can ask for as citizens for the government to stick to the very stupid and ill devised rules they come up with. If you don't want people to be anywhere near the legal limit when driving then make that the rule and tell them that. Don't make up this mumbo jumbo about legal limits and pretend you have the ability to test for it when you don't because that'll lead many people to inadvertently break the law.