• lime!@feddit.nu
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    14 hours ago

    and how do you tell if it has? imagine if the standard for alcohol was the same…

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      13 hours ago

      If you can drive safely then go ahead but if you’re impaired by too much of anything that you would drive poorly then don’t. I thought this was common sense.

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        13 hours ago

        the uk sticks out in the statistics of legal limits for alcohol in europe at 0.8‰ BAC; most countries are at 0.2 with some having a zero-tolerance policy, because it affects people so differently and it’s hard to tell.

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          12 hours ago

          Interesting, if other countries have less driving accidents then it may be worth considering lowering our legal limit. That is, if we can actually detect something is affecting them. Unless the driver is already driving erratically then we must presume the effects of any drink or other drugs isn’t affecting them. Mandatory testing or randomly pulling people over to test them would be a gross over-reach. We trust people to change their own break pads, I trust them to know if they can drive on painkillers.

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            12 hours ago

            Mandatory testing or randomly pulling people over to test them would be a gross over-reach.

            that’s… the standard in all of europe.