Driving Post-Party (1 Viewer)

[nandayo]

I just got my red P's and I'm really curious about when/if at all other P platers drive after parties where they've been drinking (late the morning after obviously) and if this is too risky. I picked up that "Zero" RTA brochure about limits for P platers and it's poster girl and boy both didn't drive the morning after...so I think that's what they are advocating.

Is there any way you can calculate how many hours you need before you go back to 0.00 with say four or five standard drinks under your belt? Or is it just not worth doing some bodgy calculation like that and getting a lift there and back instead to make sure you're not still at 0.01 or something and get booked.

 

[Tulipa]

www.rupissed.com

It's not 100% accurate but it's a good indicator.

 

[nandayo]

Seems good. But I mean you only put in start and finish time, so how would that work. What if you had a drink closer to the finish time.

Like I put in started drinking at 8:00pm, and then put total time elapsed as 15hrs so it would be 11:00am. After 10 shots, its says I'm "not even mellow" at 0.00 and ready to drive.

For some reason that seems weird to me, I put my weight down as less than a thirteen year old meth addict and after 10 shots I'm okay in the morning.

 

[Tulipa]

I said it's not 100% accurate.

Also, this is your blood alcohol level. You might still feel shit but apparently alcohol gets cleared out of your blood a lot faster than some people think.

 

[^CoSMic DoRiS^^]

a standard drink takes about an hour to metabolise, so i'd just add up how many drinks i've had (standard drinks, not just how many glasses are on the table because lots of drinks are actually worth more than one standard) and wait that many hours, but if you want to be totally safe i'd cab it or get a lift, because it would really suck to get booked for being just that tiny bit over when you thought you were fine

 

[Azamakumar]

Just rehydrate heaps and you should be fine. I've done it a couple of times, but I drank about 2L of water over the night and didn't sleep. Sounds idiotic, but I didn't have a hangover and was good to go.

 

[Riet]

It's about 1 standard per hour except after a few it will get slower as you reach a threshold. And that's 1 per hour after your last drink not your first!

 

[CieL]

No real way to calculate.
Everybody metabolises alcohol differently.
Alcohol affects everyone differently.
My friend having one drink is equivalent to me having 6 drinks.
My boyfriend blew zero [on a cop's breathalyzer] half an hour after one beer.

There is no calculation.
If you're going to drink, don't drive.
If you're going to drive, don't drink.

 

[Riet]

According to that RUpissed thing I would have been at 0.061 this morning when I drove to the mall

 

[nandayo]

According to that RUpissed thing I would have been at 0.061 this morning when I drove to the mall

Daaaaaaaammmnn.

I wonder how accurate those breathalyzers you can buy at Repco and such are?

 

[CieL]

I wonder how accurate those breathalyzers you can buy at Repco and such are?

Not very.

 

[seremify007]

There is no calculation.
If you're going to drink, don't drive.
If you're going to drive, don't drink.

Agreed. Simplest way to approach it.

 

[Serius]

that thing cant be right. Someone else put this in.

typical saturday for me: start drinking at maybe 7pm, go home at 3am, consume somewhere about 10 beers over the night.

It says that i am probably unconcious.... what a load of shit. I am not even a very big drinker, some of my friends will drink way more than that over the night and walk home fine.