[0asis]

Originally Posted by MechUT

I definitely don't wish to appear as though I don't take drunk driving seriously, but I think 0.08 is an arbitrary number, the same way the speed limits on roads are arbitrary numbers.

There may be some research behind them, but they are always best fit estimates based on the population as a whole, at the time they were enacted, and for political reasons, they are impossible to change.

Intoxication occurs at different times for different people, and is definitely affected by body weight, food consumption, person physiology, and other factors. You can be charged with drunk driving even if you are below 0.08!

A study found that most participants who actually drank till they were at 0.08 felt it was too high a limit to be driving! I'm definitely not advocating that it is too low.

But if this driver was intoxicated and going 241 on the DVP, even luck wouldn't have saved him. I do agree that he is a moron regardless.

+1. definitely 0.08 is the avg the government will use.. it's probably low enough to cover x % of the general population, with avg height, weight etc.

I bet the idiot will hire a fancy lawyer and try to contest it with some stupid reason like "my client is rich, rich and stupid. rich people can do whatever, whenever. case closed"

[bimmerbimmer]

Wow !

They caught McDouglas, finally.

[montreal red]

ontario highway patrol is going to have a ball with this guy in court! ... wonder what his excuse would be when he goes infront of a judge...

[bmdubbz]

Some people and their disregard for other humans on this planet.
This guy is a nutball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!

[TeutonicDan]

Those damn people from Aurora...

[zuluZero]

Originally Posted by kalch

i think at that speed he was travelling faster than the distance his lights covered in front of his car. So, he would have hit something before he even saw it in his headlights.

You need to think harder, and with a little help from a physics textbook.

[0asis]

Originally Posted by zuluZero

You need to think harder, and with a little help from a physics textbook.

+1, according to Kalch's kalchulations, 29 year old John Kowal from Aurora has traveled faster than the speed of light. Stephen Hawking just got owned.

[GUNN]

Originally Posted by BMdblU

+1

That was the first thing that came to my mind when I heard about this .. insane

+1

maybe on the 401 or 407, but the DVP? damn!

[0asis]

slight update to the story:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...Story/National

[kalch]

i need to step up here and answer. If he was drunk, he wouldnt have the time to realize what he hit.

im a geneticist, not a physicist, but here we go:
if car is travelling at 230km/hour
distance in front of the car that the lights can see is approximately lets say 100 metres (to be generous), is equal to 0.1 km
braking distance is published as approx. 11.1 m/s2, about 32 meters from 100 km/hour (10000 m/3600s or in his case 23000m/3600s)

hmm, i dont know how his reaction time was, but needless to say his reaction time would have had to have been under 2 seconds (i calculate about 1.72 seconds - under ideal conditions)). Anyone care to have some fun and do the real math - travelling at 230km/hr)? Again assuming just the lights were emitting enough light for 100 m and no other light sources allowed for greater than 100 meters of view.

11m/s2 = 23000m/s = 1.72 = s

my point, fast, no reaction time.