From: D Walford on
Albm&ctd wrote:
> In article <4b9dbd54$0$8758$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>,
> dwalford(a)internode.on.net says...
>> F Murtz wrote:
>>> Sekula wrote:
>>>> http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1027084/qld-flag-lowering-drink-driving-limit
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How about proving that 0.05 is the reason people are killing
>>>> themselves and
>>>> others, BEFORE that proposal is considered you banana-bending rockapes?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Statistics interpretation is the problem,
>> Lack of detail in the stats is the problem, of the 71 deaths it doesn't
>> mention how many were above 0.02 but below 0.05, any deaths above the
>> current limit are irrelevant to the current discussion.
>> Without relevant stats they shouldn't get too much support for their
>> proposal.
>>
>>
>> Daryl
>>
> Why did a far greater number of sober drivers crash?

51% of drivers involved in fatal crashes had zero BAC so yes:-)



Daryl
From: John_H on
F Murtz wrote:
>
>.02 virtually means no drinking while driving, The reason for .02 is to
>not penalise the people eating trifle or rum balls partaking in
>communion etc.

The real reason (the one they don't tell you about) is more likely to
be the accuracy of the reading plus the parallax error due to shifty
eyed cops (where there's no digital readout). :)

How many false positives would there be if the allowable level were
zero?

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John H
From: Albm&ctd on
In article <pjj2q5dqvpuehvvcd9v2vlknlqmk9rgv5o(a)4ax.com>, john4721(a)inbox.com
says...
> F Murtz wrote:
> >
> >.02 virtually means no drinking while driving, The reason for .02 is to
> >not penalise the people eating trifle or rum balls partaking in
> >communion etc.
>
> The real reason (the one they don't tell you about) is more likely to
> be the accuracy of the reading plus the parallax error due to shifty
> eyed cops (where there's no digital readout). :)
>
> How many false positives would there be if the allowable level were
> zero?
>
I wonder what would happen if you went into minus figures. Take away the 10
stubbies a night and then become like a hollow sponge absorbing alcohol from the
atmosphere. Maybe become a black hole.. but we won't go there.

Al
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