Originally Posted by filtersweep
You must be kidding. In the US, a DUI is like a speeding ticket. Here in Norway the limit is .02. People are freaked about driving the day after. Police set up road blocks. Fines are probably ten times as much as in the US.
Is that justifiable? Or is it idealistically overdoing it? My understanding, and one poster has already alluded to this, is that the correlation to highway fatalities does not occur until higher blood alcohol levels. At some point I think the drinking and driving laws have less to do with public safety and more to do with advancing an agenda against alcohol in general.