Drinking without driving or driving without drinking is a common saying. How long can we drive after drinking? Don't let our old experience confuse us. The consequences are not only the penalty, but also the threat to life safety. Let's see how long we can drive after drinking.
How long can I drive after drinking?
Strictly speaking, there is no standard answer to this question due to individual differences in the human body and different abilities of alcohol decomposition.
Scientific description: alcohol can be found in the blood 5 minutes after drinking, and it will be absorbed by the human body more than 2 hours later. As time goes on, alcohol will be absorbed and decomposed gradually in the body, and the content will gradually decrease.
Generally, the human body can metabolize 10-15 grams of alcohol per hour. People's metabolic capacity is different from that of others. Some people are slightly faster and some are slightly slower. Not only people are different from each other, but also a person's metabolic speed will change due to different time, environment, etc. According to the alcohol consumption of 1 jin (500g), the alcohol content of general white spirit is about 200g, and it takes about 20 hours to metabolize 1 jin of white spirit completely according to the calculation of 10 grams per hour. Therefore, after drinking a lot at night, the alcohol content in the body is still high after getting up the next day. For some drivers with slow metabolism, even 24 hours later, they may be found drunk driving. Here is a popular judgment standard: 1 jin liquor does not drive for 24 hours, and 1 jin liquor does not drive for 12 hours.
2. Ways to solve the problem
1. Milk sobering up method
Drunk can drink some milk, in order to make the protein coagulate, protect the gastric mucosa, alleviate the absorption of alcohol.
2. Sugarcane juice sobering up method
Those who are drunk and sober can chew sugarcane by themselves, and those who are serious can squeeze out sugarcane juice to drink and wake up.
Editor's note: the solution is very practical, but you can't drive after waking up!
III. unsafe factors caused by drunk driving
1. Reduce the driver's sight function. In driving, most of the information is obtained by vision. After drinking alcohol, vision loss, especially color perception, directly affects the driver's recognition function in response to information selection with color, prolongs the recognition process, increases the number of errors, and has a negative impact on the timeliness and accuracy of the driver's response.
2. Reduce the recognition ability. When the driver is able to drive after drinking, there are two different reactions. One is that the driver will have farsightedness, seeing near as far, and the other is that there is an error in the stereoscopic sense of the object, seeing big as small. Therefore, many drunk drivers collide with poles or rear end cars in front of them, which is the reason.
3. Reduce attention. Alcohol has a strong affinity for brain tissue. After drinking alcohol, it can inhibit the central nervous system. As a result, the driver's attention is lax, the reaction ability is reduced, the thinking is slow, and the accuracy of technical operation is reduced, which leads to the occurrence of traffic accidents.
4. Reduce the driving ability of drivers. When the driver is driving without drinking alcohol and finds the dangerous situation ahead, the intermediate reaction time from the visual perception to the action of stepping on the brake pedal is generally 0.75 seconds. However, when the alcohol concentration reaches 0.3%, the driving ability will decrease; when the concentration reaches 100 mg, the driving ability will decrease by 35%, and when it reaches 150 mg, the driving ability will decrease by 50%. As a result, the driver's movement is maladjusted in the driving process, the sensitivity of hands and feet is reduced, and the dangerous situation cannot be handled timely and accurately, which is very easy to lead to the occurrence of traffic accidents.