I don’t understand why people after many years of campaigns still choose to drive when they are not sober. I’d like to hear your opinions on what people trigger to drive nonetheless a car after drinking, bcs I don’t get it.

by Hungrybear214

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  2. Same reason why people use their phone behind the wheel, the chance of getting caught is too low.

  3. It is just an asshole, look at this:
    > Bovendien beschikte de man niet over een geldig rijbewijs doordat hij een rijverbod had gekregen. In totaal werd de man eerder al drie keer veroordeeld voor verkeersdelicten, waarvan twee keer voor rijden onder invloed.

    He doesn’t care. He continues to drive a car without a license. The fact that he’s been drinking is just another “I do not care, I’ll do what I want to do”-kinda attitude.

  4. Cuz they have any repercussions.

    Er is amper straf of gevangenistijd, zelfs als ze iemand hebben vermoord.

  5. Barely a chanse to get caught and you’d be surprised how much people are addicted to drinking.

    And fortunatly it is changing slowly, but once you stop drinking yourself you find how our culture is set on drinking alcohol

  6. Because judges still believe revoking the drivers license would magically make the person unable to drive a car like in a video game.

  7. Because although we try to convince ourselves otherwise, Alcohol is one of the most dangerous drugs out there.

  9. They’re assholes who don’t care about the safety of others. It’s that simple.

    Also, survivor bias. “I’ve done it dozens of times, and never had an accident, so I must be the exception” meanwhile the driver behind fearing for the swerving idiot in front of them.

  10. People want to drink, people want to drive and there are next to no repercussions for combining the two.

    People vastly overestimate their ability to operate a vehicle safely after a few drinks, because their reference point is hazy memories of the hundreds of times they’ve done it before and nothing bad happened.
    A good chunk of cognitive dissonance to ignore common sense, data, responsibility allows them to continue doing the stuff they want to do: Down a couple halve liters with the the buddies at the local pub, have some vodka-redbulls to stay awake or having a cheeky glass of wine (refilled 7x) at the family bbq and drive home perfectly safe because they glanced at a glass of water before they hopped in the car.

  11. THEY THINK the chance of them driving into a police patrol that will catch them is smaller than winning the lottery

  13. Old habits die slow. Also, still having somewhat of a legal tolerance for alcohol makes it worse in my opinion. I know so many people trying to chase but not exceed that legal limit. And if alcohol does one thing, it’s clouding your judgment. It’s ironic.

  14. Time for an alcohol lock for anyone who’s ever been caught (ideally maybe even just an alcohol lock for everyone, but that’s probably a lot harder to get through).

  16. Honest answer : because you think you’re okay and safe to drive, and alternatives are too embarrassing and/or expensive.

    Sober you will never drive drunk. Before you know you have more than you realize and you think: it’s just a short distance and you get behind the wheel. And survivorship bias kicks in. “I’ve done this before and I was fine”.

    Not proud of it, did it last year and swore never to do it again. So yeah, here’s an honest answer. Sorry 😕

  17. A while ago, I’ll spare the details but someone took their car and drove away when totally drunk, so we followed them with our car to try and do something… What do we see in front of us? Right behind him, a police car starts driving. I was thinking “okay, the police is gonna stop him, at least he won’t have any accidents”. We keep following for 500m, we arrive at a crossroad, and then… The guy goes right, the police goes left. Lol. Dude had some small swerving and all, but overall it was just disheartening to see. We lost the guy anyway so yeah. No consequences whatsoever.

  18. This man is a pos…
    and everyone that drinks and drives has blood on their hands. Just don’t drink when you have to drive, I don’t get why it is so difficult.
    I really wish for a zero tolerance.

  19. I dont drink

    I work in healthcare and have seen many victims of drunk drivers.

    Why people do it?

    Because they think they cant have fun without being a bit intoxicated. And after that they think, they can drive safely at home.
    Especially boomers

  21. People consider driving too much as a right instead of a privilege.

  22. People are selfish cunts. Well, not all of them, but a painfully large part of them

  23. I have the feeling that drunk driving is a belgian thing. I work in a shop and I daily accounter people with a drunk breath and I´m very sure most visit the shop with a car. I come from the Netherlands and working in a shop there I can´t think of a case where that happend aswell

  24. If I compare it to the UK, there is very little chance of being caught here in Belgium (walloonie). The amount of traffic police is next to nothing. There is a very genuine fear of drink driving in the UK but here, everyone seems to do it. It’s frightening how it becomes natural too.

  25. It’s quite dimple actually. They want to drink when they go out. Public transport is not available and taxis are only for the rich cause so expensive. Leaves only 1 option which is driving. They think it will be boring when not drinking so they go ahead with it

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