| Operating a motor vehicle, or for that | | | | a percentage. |
| matter even a bicycle or other | | | | Drinking and driving is not the same as |
| human-powered vehicle, after consuming | | | | drunk driving or the other terms |
| alcohol or other drugs so that mental | | | | mentioned earlier. Drinking and driving |
| and motor skills are impaired is | | | | means driving a vehicle after consuming |
| recognized as an act of driving under | | | | an alcoholic beverage, or driving while |
| the influence (DUI) or drunk driving. | | | | consuming one. Driving after consuming |
| Illegal in most jurisdictions, drunk | | | | alcohol is generally not considered |
| driving is responsible for a large | | | | illegal unless the driver loses his |
| number of deaths, injuries, and | | | | ability to drive safely as defined by |
| accidents every year throughout the | | | | law. |
| world. | | | | Even if the driver is not impaired, |
| The name of the specific criminal | | | | driving while consuming alcohol is often |
| offence, depending on the jurisdiction, | | | | illegal. In some jurisdictions, keeping |
| may be driving while intoxicated (DWI), | | | | an open container of an alcoholic |
| operating while intoxicated (OWI), | | | | beverage in the passenger compartment of |
| operating a motor vehicle while | | | | a motor vehicle is illegal. |
| intoxicated (OMVI), driving under the | | | | In the United States, all states set a |
| influence [of alcohol or other drugs] | | | | BAC limit of 0.08%. Some states, |
| (DUI), or drunk in charge [of a | | | | however, slap a lesser charge, known |
| vehicle]. Such laws are valid for | | | | usually as driving while impaired, on a |
| boating or piloting aircraft, also. | | | | BAC of around 0.05%. All states charge |
| The guilt of the driver may be | | | | under-21 drivers who have committed a |
| established by subjective tests of his | | | | drunk driving offence if alcohol is |
| impairment, or the measurement of his | | | | detected in their blood (set at .00%, |
| blood alcohol content (BAC). BAC is | | | | .01% or .02% to be meaningful). The |
| expressed in terms of milligrams of | | | | limit for aircraft pilots and commercial |
| alcohol per milliliters of blood, or as | | | | drivers is fixed at 0.04%. |