NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC 996
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."
Re:Mythbusters show just how impaired you are at . (Score:5, Funny)
making a mockery of the entire scientific process.
On Mythbusters, you say?
Re:Mythbusters show just how impaired you are at . (Score:5, Funny)
I'm the AC that wrote that. Drive over 0.08 all the time. I've never had a problem.
You're not statistically significant.
Re:I approve (Score:5, Funny)
And the key word there is "Associated".
Do you know what kind of depravity Dihydrogen monoxide exposure has been "associated" with?
- Nearly 100% of all felons were exposed to Dihydrogen Monoxide within just hours prior to their arrest.
- DHMO use is almost universal amongst child rapists.
- DHMO exposure actually kills children
- DHMO is dangerously addictive, killing most addicts who attempt to abstain from it within just 3 days!
Hows that for association?
Re:Mythbusters show just how impaired you are at . (Score:3, Funny)
HELL
Are you 8? (Score:5, Funny)
Winner! (Score:5, Funny)
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.
That gets today's prize for most ridiculously over-the-top hate-and-assumption-filled response.
1) Social skills are learned in pubs, bars and the like, while drinking alcohol.
2) Staying out of bars, pubs, etc, will make you fat.
3) Failure to drink enough and be in the company of others while doing so will result in selfishness.
4) Americans are particularly vulnerable due to their lack of drinking.
5) People that disagree with you are child molesters. or is it "people that don't drink"? or "people with fences around their house"? you should clarify this point for us.
Re:Incompatible (Score:4, Funny)
You have to have friends or at least social acquaintances.
Remember where you are posting.
Re:Why not just 0? (Score:2, Funny)
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....
So you think washing your mouth with alcohol will kill off worms in your intestines? They don't teach a lot of anatomy where you're from, do they?