How Drinking Affects Driving

Duration: 24

Year Published: 1974

Creator: Dave Bell Associates

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Demonstrates the effect alcohol has on driving abilities by comparing the driving performances of four professional and three street drivers after each navigates a precision test course while sober and then after drinking. Reports on research done at UCLA which illustrates that driving is a divided concentration task and that alcohol, a depressant, slows the driver's reaction time. Cautions that, even though the legal limit for determining drunkenness in most states is .10 alcohol in the blood, one's own personal limit may be lower.

Complete Record: Demonstrates the effect alcohol has on driving abilities by comparing the driving performances of four professional and three street drivers after each navigates a precision test course while sober and then after drinking. Reports on research done at UCLA which illustrates that driving is a divided concentration task and that alcohol, a depressant, slows the driver's reaction time. Cautions that, even though the legal limit for determining drunkenness in most states is .10 alcohol in the blood, one's own personal limit may be lower., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.