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Richmond, Virginia wants lawmakers to drop the legal limit from a 0.08 blood alcohol level to 0.05. Drinking was a factor in 37 percent of the city’s crashes (www.axios.com)
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[–] 7 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

At 0.0, breathalysers can't be used as evidence. They're not accurate enough.

For what it's worth, in US aviation, the standard is 0.00 BAC and 8 hours "from bottle to throttle." But breathalyser evidence is treated with a 0.02 threshold for measurement tolerance.

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