Drunk driving means first getting your drivers card taken if you have too much alcohol in your blod but it requires a lot.
And I am not sure what you mean punishment wise. Care to elaborate?
And in any case, attempt implies intent.
They measure the impairment and BAC is an instrument to that. Otherwise it would be of no interest. There used to be other impairment tests, like walking the line, before breath testers became commonplace.
> And in any case, attempt implies intent.
As manslaughter is an unintentional killing, I thought the metaphor was fairly obvious.
You know drunk drivers are prone to committing manslaughter other variables being equal, you do it anyway: well that's an attempt. Rationale behind it is irrelevant, just like noone cares you needed those money badly when you killed that cashier.
As an anecdote this is the same Denmark that went insane over a retailer selling Marmite, costing many thousands of euro in fines and punishments. That would fit the pattern of once the binary switch flips from non-criminal to criminal, a medium sized book is thrown at all miscreants.
Another possible anecdote is I know their neighbors, and probably the Danes also, punish drunken driving similar to how attempted murder is treated in the US. That would also fit the theory.