There’s something that has been bothering me for a while in regards to drinking and driving – a lot of my peers are doing it and nobody seems to care about it. Slovenia has incredible death rate due to people killing themselves in car accidents while drunk and with our driving culture it’s a challenge even if you’re fully sober.
This is actually quite surprising as we’re usually very progressive thinking bunch that defend our rights at every opportunity – Open Source, Creative Commons, Freedom of information, personal rights etc. So why do we turn blind eye towards driving under the influence?
Ever wondered why all the advertising around prevention of driving under the influence doesn’t work? Because it’s not acceptable to say to someone – “Hej, don’t drive drunk!”. Even more – it’s actually a bad move to ask someone to not drive as your peers will probably defend the person drinking.
The point I wanted to make is, if we can go out and defend all the fancy rights why do we stop at the fundamentals like drunk driving. We should be able to realize that Ljubljana is so small that you can either arrange alternative of transportation or just don’t drink while driving. At all.
Lets see if we can have a constructive discussion around these issues and leave aside any specific examples that prompted this. There are too many anyway.
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Why would it be a problem to say to someone that he should drive drunk?
Other than that I agree wholeheartedly.
Of course I mean't shouldn't and not should.
The interesting bit is how the generation in their late teens and early twenties doesn't do drunk driving. It's almost considered taboo to even try driving under the influence.
Or maybe I live in a bubble where this is true.
hehe most of folks i know, are saying “i aint gonna pay for a cab, if i have a car here” and conclueds with “what? drunk? no, i'm already sober, i drunk only few glasses of vodka and few beers. And that was waaaaay back, like 1 hour ago!”. Not to mention, that he spent 30€ for alcohol, but giving that extra 5€ for a cab, no that is too much.
Yeah and than I'm the stupid one when saying “fuck you, I'm going by foot.”
But … it's all about tradition, right? *sigh*
you are just lucky. or maybe I'm in the “drunk-driving-is-cool” bubble and I don't belong here 🙂
Ireland used to have the same “relaxed” attitude to this but it has changed and drink driving is seen as unacceptable. Pubs suffered the double blow of anti-smoking law, plus more people drinking at home because of drink driving. It will happen in Slovenia too, but not before more people die.
But the law is the law, and I find Slovene police to be better than other forces at enforcing it. I've been stopped for an alko-test 3 times in 7 years. Even after 1 beer or 1 glass of wine, say an hour earlier, I came up 0.0. My limit is always one, though I agree with you, none would be better.
> But the law is the law, and I find Slovene police to be better than other forces at
> enforcing it.
In which Slovenia?! 😉 Must be some kind of parallel universe.
In my 12 years of driving I got tested once and pulled over by police five times. Twice for speeding, one alko-test and two more 'license and registration' checks.