I have no problem with it. However, I think it is utterly useless and a waste of time and money trying to pressure states into implementing it. I heard on the radio yesterday during an interview that between 500-800 lives will be saved by doing this. Exactly how so? If that's the case, let's just make it 0.00 and everyone will be saved! Death by drunk driving will be a thing of the past! Because we all know everyone follows the rules, right?
Not to mention it's an invisible finite level. In other words, it's not like changing the posted speed limit from 65 to 55. We know exactly how fast we are going and we can adjust. With BAC, no one TRULY knows their level unless they take a calibrated Breathalyzer... which almost no one has unless they've had a serious reason to.
So what does lowering the limit really accomplish? Will it limit drunk driving more? How? No one has any idea when they're at 0.08. And they'll have no idea when they're at 0.05 too. Is it one drink per hour? That's what they said about 0.08%. I heard yesterday it's 2 drinks per hour to reach 0.08%. Which one is it? Gender, weight, rate of consumption, amount of alcohol, type of alcohol (30% ABV flavored vodka vs. 40% ABV unflavored), amount/type of food already in the stomach, etc. all play a role and can effect one's BAC. So when you don't accurately know what your BAC is to begin with, how is lowering it from 0.08 to 0.05 going to affect anything or anyone and help them adjust?
That being said, I'm 100% for drunk driving laws and think they need to be in place, for good reason. But like I said, lowering the BAC from one arbitrary (arbitrary in the sense that it could be 0.08 or 0.20, it doesn't matter considering we have no idea what the exact number is at that time, nor what we've done to affect it, or how it's truly been effected by said actions) number to a different arbitrary number is utterly useless and a waste of time.
