Drunk driving

[Bill_in_Bethlehem]

also - didnt know there was a dui "equivalent" level for highness

like a 0.08 for alcohol is the legal limit

apparently 5 nanograms is the limit wherever this was done

[Precocity]

The comparison of driving under the influence of alcohol vs. marijuana is ridiculous. Imagine someone 4x over the legal limit of alcohol. 8x. No comparison. That test just proved that their limit line is way too low.

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[Professor]

I'm a relatively cheap date. But, I can tell you that I'm not fine to drive after a single beer on an empty stomach. Legally, I probably am under the limit. But, I can tell that my reflexes have slowed. Being an amateur racecar driver, I'm somewhat in tune with my driving. And, I can easily tell that I'm not as sharp as I should be. That's what I won't drive if I've drunk anything. Anything.

[Dennis]

[Revenant]

Alcohol is also:

1. Easily avoidable
2. Not easy to correct once ingested (i.e. if you're tired you can balance with caffeine, with alcohol you just have to wait for your body to process).

Also, you're driving a two-ton hunk of metal at high speed down a road full of other humans, the least you can do is not be piss-drunk.

[spacemonkey]

The designated driver is probably the best bet today.

[Medius]

[eynon81]

FYI...when I was doing DUIs it was pretty rare that I'd get a case where some-one was under a .1 BAC. I think a lot of cops are cutting people lose if there wasn't real bad driving and if you were borderline.

That said I've also seen some real atrocities in terms of DUI charging:

1. cold night. client is fighting with meth-head boy friend. she runs out of the apartment and is sitting in her car in the parking lot crying. cop sees person sitting in a car, conducts "welfare check", smells alcohol (yeah she was drunk), hits her with a DUi charge. I got that case dismissed.

2. Homeless guy in the back of his van sleeping. He's running his van so he can run the heater (it was January). Cops conduct "welfare check", smell alcohol, see half-empty bottle of whiskey, hit him with a DUI. Got it dismissed because we showed the van was broken.