Utah set to drop blood-alcohol limit to .05, strictest in country

[zipplewrath]

60. Not even close

Smoking is probably the most dangerous thing people do. Serious drugs are probably #2. Sun exposure is probably #3. It would actually be interesting to try to sort this out. It wouldn't be easy because it combines exposure frequency with outcome probability. i.e. we probably all do relatively risky things, but not that often. Driving "seems" risky because we do so much of it. White Water Rafting on the other hand may be more risky, but since most of us only do it a few times, it seems less risky.

That's kinda the issue here. The vast majority of people rarely drive particularly intoxicated. Maybe a handful of times a year. So they increase their "risk" very little, because the frequency of exposure is so low. Furthermore, even when they do, they tend to have behavior modifications that reduce the risk level, regardless of frequency of exposure. And that's the point here, the consequences of being caught are far more serious than the likelihood of outcome, especially for these extremely low BAC levels. Exhaustion and distraction are far more common, and far more dangerous. Yet other than commercial drivers, we don't regulate that at all.