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Originally Posted by ken0042
I think you answered your own question there. I would say most people start driving around the time they are also being introduced to alcohol. So instead of getting into the habit of having a beer or two; they get into the habit of just having a pop instead.
As for the few who start driving later on in life; it also teaches the same lesson. My Fiancee was 30 when she got her GDL; and because of the rules on drinking and driving she is quite the advocate of not having anything before getting behind the wheel.
The last multi-page drunk driving thread I said that we needed solutions to stop people from drinking and driving. I think the GDL restrictions are a good start in preventing kids from developing some of the bad habits you and I may have developed.
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I will re-state the fact that I have never driven while intoxicated. I don't think it is a bad habit to have a beer or two before hopping behind the wheel. I likely do that at least once a week. In fact I had a beer at lunch and am about to hop behind the wheel right now. I could not tell a cop that I have had "nothing" to drink, I would be lying. But after 4 hours of sitting at my desk after a single beer I feel quite fine driving my vehicle safely home (provided this snow doesn't turn 90% of the other drivers on the road into idiots again).
It is the double standard with this issue that I don't understand. If a buddy and I both leave the bar at the same time after both having consumed one alcoholic beverage, is he somehow more impared by that beer than I was because he has a GDL?
I could understand an argument based on handicaps. Such as, if the drivers were both driving impared perhaps the more experience driver would be less dangerous. But to be completely honest, I don't want any impared drivers on the road, regardless of how experienced they are. So if the counterargument is that we don't want a GDL driver to be even a little bit impared, my point is still that I don't want ANY drivers to be driving impared. I believe that very few people are "impared" after one drink.