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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 2176513" data-attributes="member: 7240">In the mid 1990s, researchers at the University of Calgary came up with quite an interesting plan. They ran a series of tests on people with different blood-alcohol levels with very realistic driving simulations (halfway between an videogame and VR with the person sitting in a complete driver's seat replica) and they found that some people could learn to drive drunk, basically compensating for changes in reaction time, etc. to the point where they could drive drunk better than the average person could drive sober. Of course they didn't find this was the case with all alcoholics or even all regular drinkers. Basically, they found that some people can be trained to drive with quite a bit of alcohol in their system whereas others are harder to train or untrainable up to the above average level of reaction time and precision their study was looking for.Surprisingly, they found that it didn't take that many sessions to train certain people to drive drunk. And we see this in reality with alcoholics; some who have been drinking for years are a menace on the road as soon as they pass the legal limit whereas others have trained themselves quite effectively. The researchers recommended a policy change whereby our default should go from the current two-drink limit to zero tolerance so that a person with a standard license could be charged with any level of alcohol in their system. A person who wanted to drive drunk would have to pay extra to get a special license (because a bunch of extra testing would be involved) that permitted them to drive with whatever level of alcohol in their system they could demonstrate to the people running the tests that they could handle.Anyway, you asked for an option. That's one example. There are probably others but that's the only version I've heard a radio documentary about. Of course, there technically would still be a legal limit: for a regular license it would be zero but for a special license it would be variable and printed on the license and entered into a database. Of course, dangerous driving would still be illegal, regardless of a person's blood alcohol level.</blockquote>

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