Posted on 12/15/2018 12:17:50 AM PST by 5150 FREEPER
I know people who can drive far more safely at 0.1 than any number of doddering 70 year old Mormons at 0.0.
Takes a lot of work to build up a tolerance like that. I’d be passed out long before! I don’t know how he could stand. I’m sure the cop still talks about that one.
I’m more afraid of encountering a tired driver than a drunk driver. Driving tired is more likely than driving drunk, as there is no objective measure to let you know you are likely too tired to drive.
That aside, so in the 10,000 or so years of alcohol use by humans, only now do we understand how it affects motor skills and attentiveness. When BAC levels were at 0.1 and DUI began to get federal scrutiny in the 1980’s, the first move was to increase the state-set drinking ages or lose federal highway funds. That set up the ridiculous scenario where a 20-year old service member couldn’t legally have a drink at their own wedding (as happened to a good friend of mine).
Once people began to educate themselves about what it took to avoid a 0.1 level (about 3 drinks in an hour for a 190 lb man), DUI arrests began to drop. So in the early 2000’s the rate was magically lowered to .08 (2 drinks for a man) and now, in keeping with an ~15 year cycle, it’s going to 0.05, where now it’s down to one drink.
As you can see from this link to NHTSA stats, there is no statistical difference in DUI fatality prevalence when BAC gets below .13. That suggests to me that the 0.1 level used back in the 1980’s was based on data:
Subsequent reductions are a money grab by cash-starved municipalities, pure and simple, backed by a Prohibitionist movement that has never really faded out in the US.
“I tell people all the time:
Build a bar in your house.
It’s cheaper than a DUI”
Cheaper to drink, too. And we can control the guest list, what’s on the television, and the music.
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Exactly! Mormons are just like Democrats, if they don’t like something, make a law against it or attempt to limit is so much it can’t be done.
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