IMO car dependency should be abolished so impaired people aren't forced to drive - whether drunk, disabled, old, etc...

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.

Yes, sure it doesn't hurt to lower it. At 0.00 though, they will at some point encounter somebody who is sober but has auto-brewery symptome or other kinds of digestion related diseases.

Anyway, all I'm saying is that the legal limit doesn't stop anyone from drunk driving regardless of what it is. They do it anyway - maybe because they're drunk or something.

The better solution is to lower the speed limit in cities and make the necessary road designs to keep the speed at less than lethal even if someone is drunk. My main concern is keeping other people safe from the stupid decisions made by drunk drivers.

Where I live there are public intoxication laws which apply to both walking and public transit. And that isn't super uncommon outside the US.

Also, it's absolutely nuts that a DUI in an F-150 on the freeway and a DUI on an ordinary bicycle are considered the same legally.

It is possible to get to very near zero deaths.

They could do this by setting much lower speed limits and strictly enforcing them. They'd also need a public awareness campaign, etc. Say, 40MPH on freeways, and 25 everywhere else. There would still be outliers, the rare death would still occur, but it would be damn near zero. Obviously, though, they'd be voted out of office at the next election, so they'd never dare try it.

And, since this is "fuck cars", removing cars completely from downtown streets, replaced with walking, bicycles, and some electric vehicle transportation for the elderly, large parcel deliveries, etc. would also help. Solar panel covered walkways, more trees, and under path heating for snow melting would be good. Though I don't think they get a lot of snow in Virginia. There are many, many ways we could improve our lives, if we'd put aside the petty billionaire-manufactured differences we let divide us, and pulled together instead.

What's needed now is a comprehensive vision, a popular, widespread, realistic visualization of how life could be that avoids showing the social "woke" parts and concentrates on things both sides would agree with. The internet has taught us we need to avoid the trigger subjects because if too many people lock onto those, that's all they'll talk about. Show the bicycles, walkways, trees, solar panels, electric cars, etc. Leave out the people altogether, except sketches like architects use for scale reference. Just show the infrastructure, let people imagine who it's for on their own. Nothing too futuristic, people need to visualize how their current world could be better. If we use AI for anything, it should be stuff like this--use their tools against them.

Spoiler: They won't follow through on any of that "comprehensive plan" except for the part where they put people in torture cages.

Edit: Read "the comprehensive plan"... Putting people in cages is their only idea.