- Joined
- Feb 6, 2008
- Messages
- 37,647
- Reaction score
- 2,362
- Points
- 203
- Location
- Wolfsburg
- Preferred Pronouns
- Sire
How is that? You really think someone willing to get drunk will care about the too-young-no-drinking law?
It is a difference if you know how intoxicated you can be even after "just a small beer" (though the minister president of Bavaria once claimed that you can still drive a car after two "Mass" - about two liters). I know quite many young people who think they can still use a bike or even a small motor cycle after some beers, try it, fail epically. The damage is just less than having the same kids in the same moment of enlightenment, sit in a 1.4 ton car at 140 km/h.
Not all people are so stupid to drive a car when they know they are terribly intoxicated, even though some always are. Strange enough, you even have drunken drivers doing deadly accidents in places where alcohol is official forbidden.
It is just the teaching effect: would you believe how bad your perception and situation awareness really is, if you haven't experienced it in first person view? Even if somebody respected would tell you? Would you? And even if you drive intoxicated - would you drive different if you wouldn't know how bad the situation is?
---------- Post added at 07:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:00 PM ----------
Isn't it great? And I've hardly driven in the months since I got my permit. XD I guarentee you, I'm going to be the worst driver in town in a week. lol
I just had experienced my girlfriend driving for the first time since her driving lessons in a car with manual transmission, after driving automatic for a short distance every other month for years. You can't be much worse.