NTSB recommends cutting DUI threshold to .05

A lot more opportunities for sober journalists if it comes into effect.

 

Or talking on your phone, eating, yelling at your kids, putting on make-up, or shaving.

This does seem pretty low to me too but as has already been pointed out it could theoretically discourage people in the .06 to .09 range so that's not a bad thing.

And like Orville said, it's great way to boost tax revenues. Which is all city, county & state governments care about when it comes to this and speed limits anyway.

 

NTSB recommendations are often roundly ignored by the rest of the government. It and the FAA are always at loggerheads, for example.

 

Since when do we follow what those commie pinko socilist European countries do?

 

Since we started playing soccer.

 

And sure beats raising garbage fees or property taxes. It's like a sin tax.

 

Yeah, I wouldn't really have a problem if they did to alcohol and maybe a few other things what they're already doing to cigarettes.

The problem with that, of course, becomes, where do you draw the line? Soda? Sweets? Coffee?

 

Do any of those things cause massive traffic fatalities?

 

I'm all for it. I won't get behind the wheel if I've had any alcohol.

 

I get it. But, they're punishing the people who do know the difference.

A guy at 0.05% can end up pulled over at a check point, or be required to take a breathalyzer because he's involved in an accident that wasn't his fault.

And, now he's facing legal problems.

That's not right. Focus on the problem.

 

What's not right about it?

You don't have some inherent legal entitlement to drive with a .05 BAC. You don't have an inherent legal entitlement to drive at all.