yep, if you drive after 1 beer in less than an hour you're a drunk driver - easily will not pass the 08 threshold - pulled over, game and match your life has ended
Yes sir or maam...if you are over the limit, regardless of your ability to operate a motor vehic, you are screwed. Mark Hacking is more guilty than any of your garden variety "drunk driver", but he is allowed to prance around and have himself committed to a psycho ward. System is f'd.
Not.
Excerpted from MADD site:
"Blood alcohol concentration is a measure of how much alcohol is in someone's blood. It is the most accurate and measurable gauge of alcohol impairment. When a person reaches .08 BAC, it should be illegal for him or her to drive a vehicle. To reach a .08 BAC level, a 170-pound man would have to drink approximately four drinks in one hour on an empty stomach or a 137-pound woman would have to drink approximately three drinks in one hour on an empty stomach. This is not social drinking. When drivers reach .08 BAC, their critical driving skills, like judging distance and speed, steering, visual tracking, concentration, braking, and staying in driving lanes are severely impaired. (Moskowitz, 2000) At a .08 BAC level, a person is 11 times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than someone who has had nothing to drink. (Zador, 2000) (Keall et al, 2004)"
Just an FYI, when you said "one beer" etc I tried to find approx how many beers you really need to get to .08