02-11-2021, 10:01 AM
(02-11-2021, 06:31 AM)random3 Wrote: Michigan bill would lower drunken-driving limit to 0.05
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/m...236815002/
It is reasonable to assume that some impairment begins at a BAC around 0.05. In practice, such a BAC likely makes someone with other problems, such as anger, tiredness, panic, or stupidity all the more troublesome. It is easier to blame alcohol, which is measurable as a BAC, than anger or sleepiness.
Most likely someone would get a blood-alcohol test if something else, let us say anger, contributed to a collision or a traffic stop. I would guess that the dangerous condition known as road rage intensifies with alcohol. My suspicion is that someone who has had one drink has good cause for some concern with impairment.
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