New Missouri wake law

[MrGiggles]

On 6/16/2018 at 2:51 PM, Al Agnew said:

Wrench, I pretty much agree with you.  In effect, the .08 legal limit is an attempt to stop people from drinking ANYTHING and then driving.  As you first said, you don't KNOW how much you can drink and still be under the limit, and different people not only function differently under the influence of small amounts of alcohol, but metabolize the alcohol differently.  Maybe some people don't function well at .08, but others most certainly do.  I know I can drink 2 beers in a half hour or so and still function just as well as I did before drinking them, but if I down that third one, I start to feel it--and that's when I shouldn't be driving.  But I know guys who can down a half dozen in that hour and still be normally functional.  

So, if the goal is to basically stop everybody from driving after drinking, period, fine...just say any alcohol in your system makes you an illegal driver.  Not some arbitrary figure that makes people think they are legal to drive because they know they are operating normally, so surely they must be under the limit.  And then they get into an accident that has nothing to do with their own driving, and get the book thrown at them.

Like any drug, people will build up a tolerance.

I seldom drink and 3 beers will get me tipsy. 

To the guy that goes through a couple cases a week, 3 beers is a warm up.