• zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    If 4 beers produces 0.08% (I have no idea if this is accurate), then it should probably be lowered by at least half as driving after 4 beers seems like a quite a bad idea.

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      14 hours ago

      I also have no idea if it’s accurate, I was just granting that premise. As the other person noted, with the definition of percentage being what it is, it necessarily has to be a different number of beers for people with different volumes of blood.

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        10 hours ago

        As a bigger guy with much higher volume of blood than most of you, no way would I drive after four beers, plus I think that’s wrong

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      19 hours ago

      It depends a lot on your BMI. Larger (bother taller and fatter) people need to imbibe more drinks to get that number up whereas smaller (shorter and skinnier) folk will need fewer. Then there is also tolerance for chronic alcohol consumption which skews that number even further.

      If 4 beers were universal, every bar in America would take your car keys away after serving you the third. Hence why they rely on BAC instead of a flat number of drinks consumed.