Amusing thing about Ontario laws.
Apr. 18th, 2016 12:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingSo, something that makes me laugh. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
torrain is learning to drive and has a G1 license - an Ontario "learner's permit". This means that she can drive subject to certain restrictions: She must have an experienced, licensed, sober driver in the front passenger seat, she must avoid 400-series highways, she must have a BAC of zero, she must not drive after midnight and before 5am, etc.
Here's the catch: The definition of "sober" for the front passenger is BAC of 0.05 or less. BAC of 0.08 is the legal limit for drivers to actually, y'know drive.
So if we go out to dinner, she can drive us. If I have a beer or two with dinner, she can drive us home. But, assuming dinner takes a little longer than an hour, if I have *three* drinks with dinner, she cannot legally drive us home: by the law, if *I* drink too much, I *must* take over and drive[1], even if she hasn't had any alcohol at all.
This makes me laugh.
[1]: It almost goes without saying that this would be a stupid thing to do and I do not do it. But it amuses the crap out of me that if I *were* to do this stupid thing, I would be legally required to drive instead of the more sober person.
torrain is learning to drive and has a G1 license - an Ontario "learner's permit". This means that she can drive subject to certain restrictions: She must have an experienced, licensed, sober driver in the front passenger seat, she must avoid 400-series highways, she must have a BAC of zero, she must not drive after midnight and before 5am, etc.Here's the catch: The definition of "sober" for the front passenger is BAC of 0.05 or less. BAC of 0.08 is the legal limit for drivers to actually, y'know drive.
So if we go out to dinner, she can drive us. If I have a beer or two with dinner, she can drive us home. But, assuming dinner takes a little longer than an hour, if I have *three* drinks with dinner, she cannot legally drive us home: by the law, if *I* drink too much, I *must* take over and drive[1], even if she hasn't had any alcohol at all.
This makes me laugh.
[1]: It almost goes without saying that this would be a stupid thing to do and I do not do it. But it amuses the crap out of me that if I *were* to do this stupid thing, I would be legally required to drive instead of the more sober person.