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    This document outlines typical effects of increasing blood alcohol concentration (BAC) levels and their predictable effects on driving ability. It shows that even low BAC levels between 0.02-0.05% can result in minor impairment of judgment, coordination, and reaction time. Higher BAC levels between 0.08-0.10% lead to significant impairment of driving skills like concentration, information processing, speed and lane control. A BAC over 0.15% typically causes major loss of balance and muscle control making operating a vehicle unsafe.

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    This document outlines typical effects of increasing blood alcohol concentration (BAC) levels and their predictable effects on driving ability. It shows that even low BAC levels between 0.02-0.05% can result in minor impairment of judgment, coordination, and reaction time. Higher BAC levels between 0.08-0.10% lead to significant impairment of driving skills like concentration, information processing, speed and lane control. A BAC over 0.15% typically causes major loss of balance and muscle control making operating a vehicle unsafe.

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    Effects of increasing blood alcohol concentration levels

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    This document outlines typical effects of increasing blood alcohol concentration (BAC) levels and their predictable effects on driving ability. It shows that even low BAC levels between 0.02-0.05% can result in minor impairment of judgment, coordination, and reaction time. Higher BAC levels between 0.08-0.10% lead to significant impairment of driving skills like concentration, information processing, speed and lane control. A BAC over 0.15% typically causes major loss of balance and muscle control making operating a vehicle unsafe.

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    BLOOD ALCOHOL TYPICAL PREDICTABLE EFFECTS

    CONCENTRATION (BAC)1 EFFECTS ON DRIVING


    ff Some loss of judgment ff Decline in visual functions
    ff Relaxation (rapid tracking of a moving
    ff Slight body warmth target)
    .02% ff Altered mood ff Decline in ability to perform
    two tasks at the same time
    (divided attention)
    ff Exaggerated behavior ff Reduced coordination
    ff May have loss of small-muscle ff Reduced ability to track moving
    control (e.g., focusing your eyes) objects
    .05% ff Impaired judgment ff Difficulty steering
    ff Usually good feeling ff Reduced response to
    ff Lowered alertness emergency driving situations
    ff Release of inhibition
    ff Muscle coordination becomes ff Concentration
    poor (e.g., balance, speech, ff Short-term memory loss
    vision, reaction time, and ff Speed control
    hearing) ff Reduced information
    .08% ff Harder to detect danger processing capability (e.g.,
    ff Judgment, self-control, signal detection, visual search)
    reasoning, and memory are ff Impaired perception
    impaired
    ff Clear deterioration of reaction ff Reduced ability to maintain
    time and control lane position and brake
    .10% ff Slurred speech, poor appropriately
    coordination, and slowed
    thinking
    ff Far less muscle control than ff Substantial impairment in
    normal vehicle control, attention to
    ff Vomiting may occur (unless this driving task, and in necessary
    level is reached slowly or a visual and auditory information
    .15% ff person has developed a processing
    tolerance
    ff for alcohol)
    ff Major loss of balance
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    Information in this table shows the BAC level at which the effect usually is first observed, and has been gathered from a variety of
    sources including the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the
    American Medical Association, the National Commission Against Drunk Driving, and http://www.webMD.com.

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