Another Major Reason to Lower the Blood Alcohol Concentration Limit for Driving

The case for a 0.05% criminal law blood alcohol concentration limit for driving.

Canada established its current 0.08% Criminal Code blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limit for drivers in 1969*. 2 At the time, this was a substantial improvement, as it established a per se BAC limit under the criminal law and required impaired driving suspects to provide breath samples. However, in the more than three decades that have followed, breath testing instruments have become more acc...

The effectiveness of a 0.05 blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limit for driving in the United States.

The National Transportation Safety Board recently recommended that states establish a per se blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limit of 0.05 or lower for all drivers who are not already required to adhere to lower BAC limits in a national effort to reduce alcohol-impaired driving. There is strong evidence for adopting this recommendation. A comprehensive review of the literature on BAC limits w...

Alcohol limit for drink driving should be much lower.

Another reason for opening access to research.

Much of the debate about open access has focused on the principle of access for scientists and the economics of such a change. There is a second principle to consider: the full power of new technological approaches such as text mining, collaborative filtering, and semantic indexing, are not resulting in powerful new public resources. Despite real success in the open access movement,most scholar...

The Effectiveness of Reducing Illegal Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) Limits for Driving: Evidence for Lowering the Limit to .05 BAC in Canada