Re: Britain will be first country to monitor every car journey

In article <a11uq1dueee7gjkv0btla8479gbtmv505h@xxxxxxx>,
DTJ <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 24 Dec 2005 23:14:56 GMT, Jim Yanik <jyanik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>DTJ <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>>news:l37rq1ltmiaporu0t3ekui0tlrnbj5ltur@xxxxxxx:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Well, yeah. One drink results in a BAC of .1, which is why everyone
>>> with any brains wants to repeal our drunk driving laws.
>>
>>Where did you get this "fact"?
>
>Tests administered by doctors and police. Where I live, the police
>used to be split into groups of two, with one drinking while the other
>tested. Numerous cops who have gone through this have talked about
>how they were legally drunk long before they had enough to even impact
>their ability to shoot a gun, much less drive. Doctors I know have
>tested themselves and others to see how much it takes to get drunk,
>and frequently a single glass of wine will do it for a male weighing
>180 pounds.

Keeping in mind that

1) The "standard drink" is 4 oz of 12% wine. That's a damn short
pour; a real glass of wine might be over 6 oz of 14% wine.

2) The assumption of the breathalyzer is that the alcohol is evenly
distributed throughout the system. Not, for instance, concentrated in
the mucuous membranes of the mouth and throat, as they will be in real
life.
--
There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can
result in a fully-depreciated one.
.

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