if we were to isolate the discussiong to the 40% of fatalities that are alcohol related, half of them are for people who have 0.16+ (double the legal limit) of blood alcohol level, and a quarter of them are in the 0.8-.016 level.
i guess my main concern is, does anybody known what they feel like when they are at 0.8 limit??
because it's difficult to really gauge, i know for myself, if i'm driving, i'd just rather not drink (or have one beer at the beginning of the night) than to basically run a gamble. i'm sure there are at least a time or two, where i had a few that night, and though i felt fine, who knows where i was with regards to the limit.
i'm all for zero tolerance while driving, or having a much clearer/mathematically observable limitation around when you are ok vs when you are not ok to drive.
of course, the fact that 50% of all alcohol related fatalities are when people are double the blood alcohol limit, the problem isn't limited to not being able to determine if you are in and around the limit, but more so, irresponsible people who go into a night knowing they're going to drive home, ,yet, do not allow this to hinder the amount they drink that night.
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