Is this an unmedicated cold or a 'drugged to the tits on NyQuil' cold?

Driving with a cold, no medication, is often like driving inebriated. Of course, so is driving tired, distracted, angry, or whatever.

No, it's not like you're driving shiatfaced hammered, but it's SIMILAR for many people as driving in that borderline zone of inebriation. You may not notice it, but just pay attention the next time you're in a car with someone who is pretty sick.

Frankly, if law enforcement is going to give DUIs to individuals who are over a numerical limit but not showing signs that their DRIVING is impaired (yes, a wholly different standard than field sobriety tests... and, yes, I'm giving law enforcement too much credit, because they don't have a problem arresting some people in profiling cases for DUI who are, by all standards of measurement, SOBER), it's time they start arresting the DANGEROUS drivers who are too distracted, too tired, or too ill to be behind a wheel. Because these people pose a risk that does not get put into a nice, easy statistical study.

Texting while driving is humb.

Period.

Box'em.

;)

I'd say two or three rather than EIGHT

I've switched to a 10.5 degree. Yeah, I know it's more like a 3 wood, but I tend to de-loft my clubs with my natural swing anyway. This way I can get more loft and my natural draw is complemented.

/I love whiskey.

Good, now can we get the legal limit back to .12? With reduced punishment for below .16? You know, the non-repeat offenders who don't deserve to have their whole life ruined because of one bad decision.

Or we could just pay them $90,000 to hang out in a small room and not work.

clearly we need to outlaw driving while ill

If you are opposed to people driving while texting, remember that driving while trying to look up or punch in a phone number is pretty damned close to the same thing.

I am a pretty good drinker of booze. And no way do I think that makes sense.

Also did they test these people right after they drunk them or waited about 30 mins for it to get in their blood stream?

Motor safety experts found that the driving skills of people who were sick were estimated to drop by about 50 percent when compared with those who were healthy.


50%? So you have half the driving skills as you did before. What total shiat.

Dump this bullshiat study. Things like this give science a bad name.

Driving with Strep Throat, an Upper Respitory Infection AND Pink Eye, all at the same time is horrible, horrible, horrible, and I would have welcomed that accident to put me out of my misery.

My daughter was in Daycare at the time and shared EVERY SINGLE GERM she brought home.

I was a single mother at the time, and staying home from work was not a luxury that I had.

/I tried not to infect everyone around me
//really tried.
///slashy outbreak!
//

So, like driving on Tuesday?

jlt: Driving with Strep Throat, an Upper Respitory Infection AND Pink Eye, all at the same time is horrible, horrible, horrible, and I would have welcomed that accident to put me out of my misery.

My daughter was in Daycare at the time and shared EVERY SINGLE GERM she brought home.

I was a single mother at the time, and staying home from work was not a luxury that I had.

/I tried not to infect everyone around me
//really tried.
///slashy outbreak!
//

Did someone say 'pink eye'?

Johnny Savage: I've switched to a 10.5 degree. Yeah, I know it's more like a 3 wood, but I tend to de-loft my clubs with my natural swing anyway. This way I can get more loft and my natural draw is complemented.

/I love whiskey.

Yer current club reference is humb.

Marked.

P.S. Threaten again? Humb squared.

All_Farked_Up: jlt: Driving with Strep Throat, an Upper Respitory Infection AND Pink Eye, all at the same time is horrible, horrible, horrible, and I would have welcomed that accident to put me out of my misery.

My daughter was in Daycare at the time and shared EVERY SINGLE GERM she brought home.

I was a single mother at the time, and staying home from work was not a luxury that I had.

/I tried not to infect everyone around me
//really tried.
///slashy outbreak!
//

Did someone say 'pink eye'?

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I have Pink Eye stories that will wilt your soul.

I still flinch like a battered woman when someone says ... "ppppiiiinnnkkkk eeeeeyyyyyyeeee....."

dahmers love zombie: puffy999: Driving with a cold, no medication, is often like driving inebriated. Of course, so is driving tired, distracted, angry, or whatever.

No, it's not like you're driving shiatfaced hammered, but it's SIMILAR for many people as driving in that borderline zone of inebriation. You may not notice it, but just pay attention the next time you're in a car with someone who is pretty sick.

Frankly, if law enforcement is going to give DUIs to individuals who are over a numerical limit but not showing signs that their DRIVING is impaired (yes, a wholly different standard than field sobriety tests... and, yes, I'm giving law enforcement too much credit, because they don't have a problem arresting some people in profiling cases for DUI who are, by all standards of measurement, SOBER), it's time they start arresting the DANGEROUS drivers who are too distracted, too tired, or too ill to be behind a wheel. Because these people pose a risk that does not get put into a nice, easy statistical study.

This. I've been saying for years that the DUI system is simply a cash cow that the police can milk without any repercussions, because nobody wants to stand up for drunk drivers. My argument is that if you're going to fark over people that severely, you should be equally harsh on people using cell phones (measured as equal to a .08 BAL in studies), texting (morons anyway), dozing off (if you can't stay awake, you should be punished for driving), putting on makeup (??!), eating, or anything else distracting. Focusing only on DUI is purely a money grab that's easy for the cops, meanwhile people die every day from stupid people driving stupidly.

I have a job driving. A day I don't drive is a day I don't get paid. I'm not going to skip a work day over a sniffle just to give you piece of mind.

LoneWolf343: I have a job driving. A day I don't drive is a day I don't get paid. I'm not going to skip a work day over a sniffle just to give you piece peace of mind.

Herp herp, I am derp.

Surprise surprise, a study funded by an insurance company finds another reason not to cover your claim.

Uakronkid

That must be some weak-ass whiskey.


+1

Nofun: Surprise surprise, a study funded by an insurance company finds another reason not to cover your claim.

Bam.

Indubitably: Nofun: Surprise surprise, a study funded by an insurance company finds another reason not to cover your claim.

Bam.

Boom.

lewismarktwo: Indubitably: Nofun: Surprise surprise, a study funded by an insurance company finds another reason not to cover your claim.

Bam.

Boom.

Hah!

P.S. Thank you.

dahmers love zombie: puffy999: Driving with a cold, no medication, is often like driving inebriated. Of course, so is driving tired, distracted, angry, or whatever.

No, it's not like you're driving shiatfaced hammered, but it's SIMILAR for many people as driving in that borderline zone of inebriation. You may not notice it, but just pay attention the next time you're in a car with someone who is pretty sick.

Frankly, if law enforcement is going to give DUIs to individuals who are over a numerical limit but not showing signs that their DRIVING is impaired (yes, a wholly different standard than field sobriety tests... and, yes, I'm giving law enforcement too much credit, because they don't have a problem arresting some people in profiling cases for DUI who are, by all standards of measurement, SOBER), it's time they start arresting the DANGEROUS drivers who are too distracted, too tired, or too ill to be behind a wheel. Because these people pose a risk that does not get put into a nice, easy statistical study.

This. I've been saying for years that the DUI system is simply a cash cow that the police can milk without any repercussions, because nobody wants to stand up for drunk drivers. My argument is that if you're going to fark over people that severely, you should be equally harsh on people using cell phones (measured as equal to a .08 BAL in studies), texting (morons anyway), dozing off (if you can't stay awake, you should be punished for driving), putting on makeup (??!), eating, or anything else distracting. Focusing only on DUI is purely a money grab that's easy for the cops, meanwhile people die every day from stupid people driving stupidly.

Glad I read all of the way down the thread before I posted because THIS. A thousand times this.

I wouldn't put too much stock in this survey. It was conducted by Young Marmalade. I think he's a british rapper or something.

When I drove more I would drive better when drinking, not sloppy drunk just good and buzzed. Check blind spots, don't speed etc.

/also helped driving in Detroit which is a ghost town

Officer, I'm not as think as you drunk I am.

I haz a bad coal..d

dahmers love zombie: puffy999: Driving with a cold, no medication, is often like driving inebriated. Of course, so is driving tired, distracted, angry, or whatever.

No, it's not like you're driving shiatfaced hammered, but it's SIMILAR for many people as driving in that borderline zone of inebriation. You may not notice it, but just pay attention the next time you're in a car with someone who is pretty sick.

Frankly, if law enforcement is going to give DUIs to individuals who are over a numerical limit but not showing signs that their DRIVING is impaired (yes, a wholly different standard than field sobriety tests... and, yes, I'm giving law enforcement too much credit, because they don't have a problem arresting some people in profiling cases for DUI who are, by all standards of measurement, SOBER), it's time they start arresting the DANGEROUS drivers who are too distracted, too tired, or too ill to be behind a wheel. Because these people pose a risk that does not get put into a nice, easy statistical study.

This. I've been saying for years that the DUI system is simply a cash cow that the police can milk without any repercussions, because nobody wants to stand up for drunk drivers. My argument is that if you're going to fark over people that severely, you should be equally harsh on people using cell phones (measured as equal to a .08 BAL in studies), texting (morons anyway), dozing off (if you can't stay awake, you should be punished for driving), putting on makeup (??!), eating, or anything else distracting. Focusing only on DUI is purely a money grab that's easy for the cops, meanwhile people die every day from stupid people driving stupidly.

You, yeah you, with the sense making, take it outside

doglover: Have you ever actually been drinking in a bar? Not a college bar with the loud music and the awful vodka drinks, but a proper smokey pub; quiet and crowded. I've seen old British guys tilt back nearly a bottle of Jameson's in the space of three hours and keep right up with the conversation without missing a beat. They weren't sober, but they could have walked a straight line or said the greek alphabet backwards if you'd asked.

It's all a matter of control.

that's because their country sucks so they've got to be world-class drunkards to cope.

The Irresponsible Captain: Good, now can we get the legal limit back to .12? With reduced punishment for below .16? You know, the non-repeat offenders who don't deserve to have their whole life ruined because of one bad decision.

Or we could just pay them $90,000 to hang out in a small room and not work.

No.

8 shots of whiskey huh... posers

I will say I drive better after the better part of a handle of rum then most people in Atlanta do stone cold sober.

And you can shove that cellphone up your ass.

great.. now those crazy MADD ladies are going to be staking out pharmacies and heckling people as they get in their cars to drive away intoxicated :P

I was 18 and driving with my 13 year old sister from Eugene to LA. A nice 14 hr drive. After stopping for food in Redding we both got violently ill. We had some large 32 oz cups with us and every once in a while I'd ask her to grab the wheel from the passenger seat and I'd puke into the cup at 70mph. It was awesome.

Having driven for 4 hours with a cold just before Christmas, I agree with the article, to some extent. Certainly, certain aspects of driving were harder, largely because I felt very tired. However, the experience lacked the loss in perception, loss of judgment, loss of dexterity, loss of reflexes (well, not AS bad, in my experience), etc. that comes with being drunk.

So, no, not as bad as being drunk.

Ravage: I was 18 and driving with my 13 year old sister from Eugene to LA. A nice 14 hr drive. After stopping for food in Redding we both got violently ill. We had some large 32 oz cups with us and every once in a while I'd ask her to grab the wheel from the passenger seat and I'd puke into the cup at 70mph. It was awesome.

I guess that's better than asking her to hold the cup.