If you ever visit Budapest, do not drink and drive.

[Brigid]

Your blood alcohol may not exceed 0.0. That's right -- 0.0.

Tidbit from H2.

[dipsydoodle]

1. Makes sense

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[shenmue]

2. Wow!

Now that's serious.

[Duckhunter935]

3. maybe we should do that here

might cut down on the tens of thousands of deaths per year

[stevenleser]

9. Can't do it here unfortunately. We don't have the mass transit system required.

We can do it in NYC and Boston and DC and Chicago, but other than that, it wont work.

Look at this rail coverage of Budapest: http://www.bkk.hu/apps/docs/terkep/vasut_agglo.pdf

Include the buses and trolleys and you get this: http://www.bkk.hu/apps/docs/terkep/buda.pdf

No excuse for driving under the influence when you have that system. Leave the car at home if you are going to drink at all.

Outside of a few cities in the US, you dont have that here and cant do it.

[NutmegYankee]

12. How would rural bars survive?

Or just even social drinking at a friends. We need to drive to get to places. Laws like this are just authoritarian drippings from the neo-temperance movement.

[Duckhunter935]

14. I know it would never work

just putting it out there

[lpbk2713]

4. Wait about fifteen minutes after using mouthwash.

BA could indicate a false positive.

Link: http://www.lawyers.ca/impaired/pages/mouthalcohol.htm

[SheilaT]

5. Maybe you shouldn't drink and drive at all?

[Tetris_Iguana]

6. That's dumb.

It's basically practical prohibition that will fail like all other zero tolerance BS.

Not that it would matter for long with the self driving cars and whatnot.

[riderinthestorm]

7. I already do this. I don't know if I could live with myself if I ever caused mayhem and destruction

after drinking and driving.

My kids and husband razz me enough about how "embarrassing" I am after one drink. I believe them. If my judgement is already impaired enough that I'm "embarrassing" after one drink, then I surely know to stay off the road.

Take a cab! Then it doesn't matter and you can have all the fun you want.

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. That's been my personal practice for 20 years, since I could drive at all

I don't drive after even a single glass of wine. A single beer. Nothing. If I'm driving, I don't drink at all. And I like to drink. The wife and I take turns if we're going to a party. if we're going out for a nice dinner, we rarely drive, as we both like a cocktail before and some win e with dinner.

Now, I live in a city where public transportation and cabs are plentiful, so I get all that. But it seems like a pretty easy practice to institute.

[etherealtruth]

10. That is the way I live my life

[Spider Jerusalem]

11. That's good advice if you visit anywhere, really.

I would think that any alcohol at all would be a bad idea if one had to navigate unfamiliar streets and deal with unfamiliar traffic signs and signals.

[leftyohiolib]

13. zero tolerance policy

[johnp3907]

15. Don't drink and drive ANYWHERE!