Drink driving law change, anyone agree?

That's why they set the levels as low as they do. At .08, many people are still quite able to drive at least as safely as many people do stone sober. especially someone that's engrossed with talking with their honey on the cell phone, or putting on makeup, or lighting up a cigarette, or smacking their kid around. Maybe they should come up with a rating system. Put little beer cans on the license for how much you can drink and still drive. If you're already a lousy driver, you only get a half a can.

I think the problem is that it would be nearly impossible to enforce. So many people have a glass of wine at dinner, for example, that in areas w/o public transit, they just couldn't go anywhere afterward. I'm not saying I disagree with you on the merit of such a law; I lost a sister to a drunk driver. But as long as alcohol itself is legal, there *is* still a difference between having any alcohol (like, say during communion at church) and being drunk. Hence the test to judge how much alcohol you've had.

I think it already is...

I totally agree. Taxies are cheap, the price of possibly taking anothers life is not.

I understand your position but this would have huge economical effects! Millions of people have a beer after a big game or after finals in college, especially at a local bar and then drive home. You have to have a reasonable limit so that alcohol can still be consumed slowly and responsibly. Unfortunately, even if this law were made illegal, people would still break the law about as much as they do now, and in almost every case, get away with it because most of them don't get caught. Trust me, I understand what you are saying but I just don't think this is fair to the workers in the economy or to the responsible drinkers!

I totally agree I am a taxi driver and believe it or not I'm more scared of drink driver than some of my passengers. It doesn't help when most pubs have a car park.

it is illegal, to drink and drive and you do see everyone say don't drink and drive, where have you been for the last 20 years

The reason its not illegal totally is because most people have some level of alcohol in their blood/ breath even when stone cold sober due to the bodys chemicals therefore it would be almost impossible to enforce.

I understand what you mean. You think that the limit should be 0, right? I don't necessarily agree. I feel that I should be able to have a beer and drive and hour later. There still may be a very slight trace of BAC after that, but I would definitely not be impaired or breaking the current DUI/DWI laws. JMO