No traffic deaths in Helsinki for a year

Re:No traffic deaths in Helsinki for a year by Sesse__ on Monday August 04, 2025 @04:47PM (#44791166)

I recognize that you think this is a great injustice towards something, but since the level was moved from .05 to .02 (in 2001), the number of traffic deaths in Norway (of which 64% involved alcohol over the legal limit at the time) has dropped by about 2/3. Simply put, fewer people are drunk driving and fewer people are dying due to it.

FWIW, the level was set at .02 because it was the closest to zero one could get and still have a reliable measurement on breathalyzers at the time.

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Re:No traffic deaths in Helsinki for a year by Dylan16807 on Monday August 04, 2025 @05:21PM (#44791502)

You're the one that listed the injustice I'm reacting to:

> Basically what happened when we moved the limit from .05 to .02 is that people stopped having “only one beer” (which is, of course, at risk of becoming three) before driving home.

If you hadn't said that line I wouldn't have said anything.

But that line directly states that people that actually had one beer were being screwed over to get people to stop drinking more than one beer.

Is that line not accurate? Am I missing something that makes it not actually an injustice?

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