Experience what it does
A special experiment in Japan: people who take driving lessons are put behind the wheel of a car while drunk. The idea is to show them how much alcohol can affect your driving skills.
In Japan they often do things slightly differently than here and that apparently also applies to driving lessons. These are normally quite tough and it also takes quite a long time on average before you receive a driver’s license. Also different from here: you start with lessons on a closed and specially equipped area with numerous obstacles and simulated traffic situations. In this way one can safely and yet also prepare quite extensively for the real work. And so you can also experience what it’s like to drive drunk, as it turns out. On JapanToday we read about ‘drunken driving lessons’.
It seems to be a local initiative for the time being. In the video below we see it in practice at a driving school in Chikushino. There, a student was given a large amount of alcohol and was then allowed to work on such a training ground. It won’t surprise you, but it wasn’t easy. The best man therefore had a blood alcohol level where, here in the Netherlands, your driver’s license should actually go straight into the shredder if you get behind the wheel with it. He was put behind the wheel with a promillage of 1.84, or more than three times the amount allowed for advanced drivers in the Netherlands. In any case, this student will no longer think overconfidently that he can still drive after a night of drinking, that is the idea behind this.
In the video below you can see how it went:
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl