In addition, it is convenient to eat light. Keep in mind too that many prescription drugs and illegal drugs can strongly affect your ability to drive.
No alcohol when driving
Alcohol is a toxic depressant of the nervous system. Even if you do not notice it, a single glass of wine, beer, whiskey, etc., decreases your driving capacity because:
- It blunts the senses, alters the perception and diminishes the attention capacity.
- Reaction times are lengthened, so the answers and maneuvers become slower and clumsier.
- The vision is affected. In particular, peripheral vision deteriorates (on both sides), adaptation to light changes is slower (for example in case of glare) and red tones are perceived with difficulty (it is slow to recognize the red lights of the traffic light , position and brake lights).
- It generates a false sense of security, with errors of judgment and interpretation, which predisposes to excesses of speed and to all kinds of violations of traffic safety regulations.
Keep in mind that:
- Neither coffee nor other stimulants cancel their harmful effects, although it seems that way.
- Even if you feel you are attentive and try not to make mistakes, you. and his family are at high risk; Your brain is under the influence of alcohol.
- It is not necessary to be drunk to suffer the effects of alcohol in driving.
- Alcohol is present in at least one of every two deaths in transit in the world.
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The legal limit
The National Traffic Law and its regulations establish a limit of maximum tolerance of blood alcohol of 0.5 g per liter and the National Law of Fight against Alcoholism No. 24.788, modifies it partially by setting new limits of 0.2 g per liter of blood for motorcyclists and mopeds and 0g for professional drivers (transport of passengers, cargo or minors).
Some provinces, such as Córdoba and Salta, have provided tolerance or alcohol for all drivers of vehicles, and others have it under study.
What does a maximum limit of 0.5 mean? How much is tolerated to drink, according to this limit?
This is not an equal quantitative limit for all, but varies in each person, according to different personal circumstances and, especially, according to weight and sex. Also other factors such as fatigue, the ingestion of certain medicines, diseases, etc., can potentiate the toxic effects, so in reality it is very difficult to say exactly if a glass of alcoholic beverage, in a certain human being and in a precise moment, it will overcome or not the legally tolerated limit, making it clear that whoever does not overcome it does not guarantee that it is in real conditions of driving safely, since even below the legal limit the psychophysical capacity is affected