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[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 197 points 5 months ago

I mean tbf it's right about when you think you're really good at it that driving drunk ends up fucking you so... shockingly accurate?

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 47 points 5 months ago

It's like riding a motorcycle - it's not IF you crash, it's WHEN.

I stopped hanging out with a girl I knew in college. She nearly crashed her car twice while drunk driving in her 20s, non-fatal, and constantly bragged about it. And not sure why she likes risking her life or of innocent people.

No idea what she's doing in her life now.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 17 points 5 months ago

Hopefully cherishing it.

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Hopefully not driving, and not drinking, but really hope not both at once anymore

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 31 points 5 months ago

Yeah that's just the part where you pass out behind the wheel.

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I agree with those lab results.

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 137 points 5 months ago

It should have made the controls more sensitive over time so at the end you're swerving back and forth

[-] kn33@lemmy.world 127 points 5 months ago

Or just increase your "drunk meter" by increasing the input lag. Then have someone walk out into a crosswalk or something.

I propose we take these ideas and build our own drunk driving game that gets gradually more impossible to play and with more risks the longer the run continues. Like Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy meets that DPKR Crazy Taxi clone.

[-] muzzle@lemm.ee 15 points 5 months ago

And/or increase the delay between the commands and the game.

[-] fubbernuckin@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Simply have the game swerve for you and you have to correct it.

[-] marzhall@lemmy.world 110 points 5 months ago

They should end it by having another drunk driver come out of left field and crash into you instead

[-] turddle@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Or flashing red & blues in the rearview

[-] Hupf@feddit.de 99 points 5 months ago

Actually I like how European/American Truck Simulator models tiredness. At some point you see some black out and the controls don't respond for a few seconds. Good luck recovering from that depending on the driving situation.

[-] Doxatek@mander.xyz 67 points 5 months ago

We did this in highschool but with a texting and driving simulator. You had to drive the car and not hit a ton of obstacles meanwhile texting back a specific message in response to incoming text messages. I played a shit ton of video games as a child so I was super good at this and never crashed. Made the gym teacher mad. I still understood the point of it though of course but I liked being able to beat the game.

[-] suction@lemmy.world 52 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Drunk driving is absolutely safe, it’s just a ploy by the globalists to keep men from being manly and keep Trump out of office!!! All Trump fans should protest by loading their family into their cars and drunk drive around Pro-Trump neighbourhoods at breakneck speed.

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 48 points 5 months ago

It should have just pulled you over after a certain length of time

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 15 points 5 months ago

Like the whole drunk driving thing in GTA4

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

GTA5 gives you 1 wanted star if you drive drunk.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 5 months ago

Wait, it really stopped you after a certain amount of time? I didn't remember that...

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

Nah, I meant more that it was next to impossible to not get the cops on you when you drove drunk. Even if you somehow managed to drive reasonably well (which was stupid hard), getting anywhere within a block of a cop set them on you.

[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

Ah, yes. Using an obvious lie to prove your point. This only works, of course, when you have some authority over the people you are trying to convince.

[-] MSugarhill@feddit.de 10 points 5 months ago

Ahhhh, it is some Kobayashi Maru type of setting!

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Sounds fair to me

[-] Dreizehn@kbin.social 10 points 5 months ago

Driving while yapping away on a Galaxy or iPhone is worse than being fucking drunk. Both, is double worse.

[-] fristislurper@feddit.nl 72 points 5 months ago

Drinking is definitely worse. Like, talking is bad sure, but drinking is much worse.

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

A phone conversation is for sure not as bad as driving drunk, however browsing and texting might be worse than some of the lower BA levels

[-] Dreizehn@kbin.social 5 points 5 months ago

A test, on a closed circuit, was conducted in Germany, perhaps 10 years ago. The mobile phone users were worse than the damn drunks.

[-] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

One test on a track ten years ago is not evidence that being drunk is less harmful than talking on a cellphone while driving.

[-] Chewget@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago
[-] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

Allegedly using 2014 text aps that were barely better than t9

[-] discostjohn@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago

What are the parameters here? Are we talking texting while driving compared to two beers? Browsing Amazon compared to a liter of vodka?

[-] Shadowedcross@lemmy.world 50 points 5 months ago

True, that's why I only yap away on Motorolas while driving.

[-] Shanedino@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

I never understood the thought of handless calling being a bad thing, like sure it's slightly distracting but not more so than talking to a passenger.

[-] notabot@lemm.ee 15 points 5 months ago

The difference is an adult passenger tend to also be somewhat aware of what's going on on the road and will tend to shut up when things get hairy, even if only through panic. Someone one the other end of a phone won't until they hear the crunch.

[-] alphapuggle@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Mythbusters: Driving Drunk Vs Mobile Phone

Edit: Episode Part 1/3 Part 3/3 (I couldn't find 2/3 anywhere annoyingly enough)

TL:DW: They found driving while using a cell phone is potentially as dangerous as driving drunk. They scored lower in their crash course while on the phone

Important to note:

  • They didn't mention how much alcohol was consumed (or they did in the episode and not in this clip, give me a break I found this in 2 minutes on the shitter)
  • ~~They show them taking a breathalyzer test. Im going to assume they were testing to be over the limit to get a DUI (.08% in the US), though it's not shown or mentioned~~ A clip of part 3/3 says that they stayed below the legal limit (@ .065%) so they would NOT be legally intoxicated
  • The sample size is like, 2. Not very statistically accurate, as mythbusters is entertainment and not a real scientific study
  • Theyre on a closed course. No pedestrians, no stop lights, no other drivers, no "unpredictable" variables in which you would need your reaction time, which would be impaired if you were drunk
  • Theyre using flip phones held up to their ears, on a phone call. Results probably vary (though are probably worse) texting vs a phone call and on modern devices vs old ones

No real claim either way to one being worse. Moral of the story being get off your fucking phone and don't drive drunk and you dont need to worry. Dreizehn@kbin.social's claims aren't necessary wrong, but they're not necessary right either

[-] StaySquaredUp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

lol.. when I was in high school there was some sort of D.A.R.E. program, just named something else.. they asked us to wear goggles that was supposed to simulate vision while high on marijuana. I burst into laughter and said, "this absolutely does NOT happen to your vision on marijuana."

The goggles had a haze-like film and some other sort of fractal film where each movement you made it was supposed to simulate hallucinations / flutter vision.. the police officer who looked like he was maybe in his mid twenties had a grin on his face as I passed the goggles onto the next person.

That was a point in my life when I realized.. the authority we're supposed to obey are just average dumb ass non-thinking humans.. what we call today, NPCs.

this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2024
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