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NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC
Officials for the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board have recommended a nationwide lowering of the blood-alcohol level considered safe for operating a car. The threshold is currently 0.08% — the NTSB wants to cut that to 0.05%.
"That's about one drink for a woman weighing less than 120 lbs., two for a 160 lb. man. More than 100 countries have adopted the .05 alcohol content standard or lower, according to a report by the board's staff. In Europe, the share of traffic deaths attributable to drunken driving was reduced by more than half within 10 years after the standard was dropped, the report said. NTSB officials said it wasn't their intention to prevent drivers from having a glass of wine with dinner, but they acknowledged that under a threshold as low as .05 the safest thing for people who have only one or two drinks is not to drive at all. ... Alcohol concentration levels as low as .01 have been associated with driving-related performance impairment, and levels as low as .05 have been associated with significantly increased risk of fatal crashes, the board said."
Bingo: When you make it common to be arrested for drunk driving (some places in Canada have 0.03% now!!!) people will simply look at it like you got a ticket for jaywalking.
Expect people to stop saying "You're a fucking asshole" when you say you were drunk driving in a few years. Instead they'll say "Oh, that sucks. I got a speeding ticket for 5 over last week too. Fucking cops." or "Holy shit the penalties for that are so ridiculous. I really hope you get out of it."
That's probably *not* what is going to make people respect that drunk driving is a bad idea.
There are many good "Listerine" like mouth washer, which are now not sold in US because they have too high level of alcohol. And just for the record, the best known worms killer is alcohol, which explains why the regular american is so fat and full with worms...the intestinal worms....
Which explains why americans are so socially inept and so fat, and so selfish. Well done mister, don't stop, put a fence around your house and kidnap another 14 year old teenage.
How can this be modded insightful. 100 countries have adopted 0.05 due to the carnage caused by drunk drivers.
On second thought, this is the country that thinks so little of mass shootings in schools that they refuse to regulate the access to firearms. Deaths on the road due to drunk drivers is nothing when compared to that.