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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
As BBS said, and as the link I posted states, there are 90lb Asian women out there that may very well not be good to drive after a glass of wine, and will tell you they feel drunk.
Dad after 2 beers is never going to have an issue with 0.05 unless he's a serious anomaly.
My point is that if you use the online calculators, you are going to see conservative numbers, and you are going to think you are screwed having 2 or 3 beers with dinner, when likely this is not true at all. I think the onus is on you to either be super conservative and only have 1 drink if you don't know your limits, or get a hold of a breathalyzer and find out for yourself how you personally actually metabolize alcohol and how you feel at different BAC levels.
I know personally, that when I hit around 0.04 I feel like there is no way I should be driving a car. I'm not using that new found knowledge to drive past where I'm comfortable, I'm still not going to drive when I start to feel inebriated.
I really don't feel anyone is fit to argue with a 0.05 limit unless they have confirmed themselves how they feel and react at that point and how many drinks it is for them. My own anecdotal evidence, including a friend I play hockey with bringing out his breathalyzer to pass around for after-hockey beers, says that most people won't consider driving at 0.05, with the exception of people who I've heard the phrase "It's not that far and there won't be any cops" who I don't exactly believe have a healthy attitude to the whole issue to start with.
Get a breathalyzer, try it out, see if you still think 0.05 sucks. If my small sample group is wrong and lots of people hit 0.05 and feel completely fine, then ok, I'm wrong, and I'm sorry. Just going off of what I've seen and read about with ~15-20 people.
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For about the, oh I don't know, 200th time, the issue isn't with the ability of someone to drive at 0.05, it's with the complete removal of basic legal rights.
If it's so unacceptable for people to drive at 0.05 make that the law. Hell, you should be pissed at the fact that people at 0.05 aren't getting as hefty of punishments as those at 0.08 as it seems you see them in the same light.