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I think it's the latter. I've tried a few times with a breathalyzer (that I got off of amazon for pretty cheap, so no guarantee on accuracy. Although it was con
by yibg 5y ago
I think it's the latter. I've tried a few times with a breathalyzer (that I got off of amazon for pretty cheap, so no guarantee on accuracy. Although it was consistent) while drinking and I was pretty shocked at how drunk I felt while still being under 0.08. I always assumed the safe limit would be a beer or 2, after which I'd be driving under the influence. Turns out drinking 5 beers over an hour or 2 I was still only around 0.05.
- zionic 5y agoYou have the correct idea. 0.14 was the scientifically determined level of impairment. 0.08 is the number MADD paid for.
- davidgay 5y agoMuch of Europe is now at 0.05. In unrelated news, driving deaths per inhabitant or per km are also substantially lower in Europe (2x, 5x, etc, depends on country and metric - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...). Not only due to blood alcohol limits of course, but those changes are symptomatic of an effort to change the rules to actually affect road accident deaths.