Can someone help me understand thinking that drunk driving is ok?

[brianmanahan]

also, this thread is giving me some serious deja vu.

 

[BurnItDwn]

People are dumb and choose the easiest option, even if there are extremely huge risks.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Whats funny is I had a total brain fart when I was in Brazil.

I got in the car with my in-laws who live in Brazil... and they start busting open beers all-around. It just totally befuddled me they could drink in a vehicle after living in the US where it's such a no-no.



edit: Maybe if we didn't condemn it so much people wouldn't be as inclined to disobey? Just a thought.

 

[boomerang]

Unless you are tiny 3 drinks is nothing. Even 5 drinks over say 2 hours can be fine for most people to drive.

What city do you live in?

 

[JulesMaximus]

i would ask the guy i knew in real life who always told me it was fine, but a couple years ago he swerved while buzzed-driving his cycle over a hill and got killed.

Statistics show that 50% of all motorcycle fatalities involve alcohol. This is why I never drink and ride. NEVER!!!

 

[smackababy]

also, this thread is giving me some serious deja vu.

I think rudeguy is more clever than we give him credit for. He doesn't really care about the rationality and likely never had any DUI. He is stealthily baiting some unknown drunk driving morons to post and start a trolly flamewar!

Brilliant!

 

[nageov3t]

Not everyone who drives to bars drinks or drinks to a point where it wouldn't be perfectly safe to drive away.

plus it's kind of hard to design a bar with no parking whatsoever (especially given that many also serve food)

my local watering hole doesn't have its own parking lot, but it's right next to a train station and there's usually ample street parking (outside of Friday/Saturday nights), so it's not like there's a way the town can prevent people from driving there.

 

[AdamK47]

because I was selfish, short sited and a moron.

This happened just recently then?

 

[poofyhairguy]

because I was selfish, short sited and a moron.

So are many people.

 

[purbeast0]

Whats funny is I had a total brain fart when I was in Brazil.

I got in the car with my in-laws who live in Brazil... and they start busting open beers all-around. It just totally befuddled me they could drink in a vehicle after living in the US where it's such a no-no.



edit: Maybe if we didn't condemn it so much people wouldn't be as inclined to disobey? Just a thought.

i have a picture of me driving a golf cart while in mexico (isla mujeres) with a beer in my hand and my wife has a pineapple drink in her hand with a bucket of beer in her lap, and the cops right behind us. pretty funny picture. and no i was not wasted at all.

 

[Zargon]

Even "buzzed driving" could end with you killing someone. the risk?

you do realize the sheer number of traffic fatalities that involve sober people right?

driving means you could kill someone

just wanted to point that out

 

[smackababy]

you do realize the sheer number of traffic fatalities that involve sober people right?

driving means you could kill someone

just wanted to point that out

Yes, and as risky as driving is, the addition of distractions and slowed reaction times increases that risk immensely. You can't completely remove the risks involved while driving, however, you can really mitigate a lot of factors contributing towards that risk.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Agree, why do people think driving is ok? Please stay in your rubber paded house. It is the only way to be sure no one dies of anything except boredom.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Personally I think that the dangers of drunk driving is over sensationalized. It has become a scapegoat for too much of the problems on the road, when the truth is the real problem is not that people drink and drive, it is that people don't take the responsibility of driving seriously in the first place.

I mean everyone gasps and clutches their pearls at the mention that someone might have been driving while under the influence of alcohol, but no one seems to think anything about driving around with a soda in one hand and a cell phone in the other, or steering a car at 80mph in a 60mph zone while talking on the phone and putting on eyeliner, or screaming at two kids while simultaneously trying to eat a taco and smoke a cigarette.

People are in such a hurry that they will risk the lives of themselves, their passengers, and everyone in the cars around them so not to have to wait 2 extra minutes at a red light. They will contribute to major backups on freeways so as to cut ahead three cars in a line of cars five miles long. They will pull out onto a road without enough room to get up to speed so they don't have to wait four minutes until the next gap large enough for their 12 year old oldsmobile to get up to speed in.

We have a problem much bigger than drunk driving.

 

[smackababy]

Personally I think that the dangers of drunk driving is over sensationalized. It has become a scapegoat for too much of the problems on the road, when the truth is the real problem is not that people drink and drive, it is that people don't take the responsibility of driving seriously in the first place.

I mean everyone gasps and clutches their pearls at the mention that someone might have been driving while under the influence of alcohol, but no one seems to think anything about driving around with a soda in one hand and a cell phone in the other, or steering a car at 80mph in a 60mph zone while talking on the phone and putting on eyeliner, or screaming at two kids while simultaneously trying to eat a taco and smoke a cigarette.

People are in such a hurry that they will risk the lives of themselves, their passengers, and everyone in the cars around them so not to have to wait 2 extra minutes at a red light. They will contribute to major backups on freeways so as to cut ahead three cars in a line of cars five miles long. They will pull out onto a road without enough room to get up to speed so they don't have to wait four minutes until the next gap large enough for their 12 year old oldsmobile to get up to speed in.

We have a problem much bigger than drunk driving.

And, while all of that is true, willingly impairing yourself and then driving is beyond fucking retarded and should have harsh penalties.

 

[SMOGZINN]

And, while all of that is true, willingly impairing yourself and then driving is beyond fucking retarded and should have harsh penalties.

Do you really think that any of those things in the second paragraph is not willingly impairing yourself? They are all offshoots of the same root cause. They are all the same thing. We don't take the dangers of driving seriously. Read any thread on here about speed limits to see this clearly.

 

[videogames101]

IMO it's pretty easy to tell if you are in a state to drive or not. Do you guys not feel drunk when drinking? I sure do.

 

[smackababy]

Do you really think that any of those things in the second paragraph is not willingly impairing yourself? They are all offshoots of the same root cause. They are all the same thing. We don't take the dangers of driving seriously. Read any thread on here about speed limits to see this clearly.

I agree, but alcohol has the ability to impair you beyond what wearing eyeliner does. Those things merely distract you for a moment. You have the ability to put the phone down. You don't, however, have the ability to put the intoxication aside for the time it takes to drive home and that is a huge issue.

 

[zbalat]

Sam Kinison explained it

"We don't WANT to drink and drive ... But there's no other way to get the fucking CAR back to the HOUSE!! How are we supposed to get fucking home??!!"

I do not drink and drive BTW.

 

[smackababy]

Sam Kinison explained it

"We don't WANT to drink and drive ... But there's no other way to get the fucking CAR back to the HOUSE!! How are we supposed to get fucking home??!!"

I do not drink and drive BTW.

That isn't an explanation. That is an excuse. You could pick the car up the next day. It ain't that hard. The real thing Sam Kinison is saying is "I'm either too lazy to go out of my way tomorrow to come pick up my car or too stupid to plan ahead and not bring my car to the bar in the first place. And, therefore, I drive drunk like a fuckwad."

 

[zbalat]

It was part of a stand up routine. It was a joke.

 

[rudeguy]

I think rudeguy is more clever than we give him credit for. He doesn't really care about the rationality and likely never had any DUI. He is stealthily baiting some unknown drunk driving morons to post and start a trolly flamewar!

Brilliant!

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=1683494&highlight=drinking

 

[gorcorps]

I think what's even worse and more often ignored is driving too tired. Happens all the time and it's just as bad to potentially even worse than driving drunk depending on how tired you are.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Sam Kinison explained it

"We don't WANT to drink and drive ... But there's no other way to get the fucking CAR back to the HOUSE!! How are we supposed to get fucking home??!!"

I do not drink and drive BTW.

Sam Kinison was killed when his car was hit head on by a drunk driver.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Sam Kinison was killed when his car was hit head on by a drunk driver.

Irony much?