If the reddit comments are to be believed: straight from the parking lot into the drink
I was sober except for the part where I maybe wasn’t except in a legal sense and then on top of that suffered a bunch of other ailments that made me drive into a pond, over a curb and some other shit
On good will I hand it to this person that this sounds american-with-no-alternatives as fuck and they didn’t frame it as a sort of passive “I got into an accident” but like still
Are you really trying to dismiss societal factors out of hand and push a “personal responsibility” narrative? lol
Rain is an external factor, Lyme and blood sugar drops are societal by way of healthcare, but being just below 0.08 when the cops arrive at the scene and breathalyze you is one’s own doing.
Wait the legal BAC in America is 0.08??? In China it’s 0.02. And I thought Australia was high with 0.05
England and the US are 0.08, which seems to have influenced much of the world. No one really has any limit higher than 0.08. Most of Western Europe (EU15 ish) is 0.05.
What’s probably an equally big risk is distracted driving and tired driving, but tired driving is very hard to quantify. If we didn’t require cars so much, it wouldn’t really matter because you could walk or ride a bike home (I have done this many times when drunk or high, without any problem). As an American, I feel like it’s easier to phase out cars than it is to stop drunk driving.
Fuckin’ England.
Looked it up
Vietnam: 0.00
China: 0.02.
Taiwan province, South Korea and Japan: 0.03
Hong Kong: 0.05.
Singapore: 0.08
The more influenced by England, the more the country tolerates driving while drunk. Look:
Republic of Ireland and Scotland: 0.05
England and Wales: 0.08
…Okay yeah I somehow missed that part, fair point