In Japan, drivers are given alcohol to wean them from drunk driving (4 photos)

The Japanese, of course, are still entertainers.





A large driving school in the Japanese city of Chikushino began offer clients drunk driving to convince self-confident drivers never get behind the wheel drunk. At first those who wish to test their abilities are offered to drive sober on three sections of the road - a descent, an S-shaped track and a series of steep turns. Then they are given a can of beer (350 ml) and a cup of plum umeshu wine and shochu liquor. Then with the instructor sent along the same route.

The journalist Hyelim Ha took part in the experiment. Having driven sober, she drank the offered alcohol and again sat down at the steering wheel. The breathalyzer showed a slight degree of intoxication - 0.30 mg alcohol per liter of exhaled air, which is twice the legal limit threshold of 0.15 mg.



The journalist was sure that after drinking alcohol she could drive a vehicle without problems, but her instructor stopped after a descent and an S-shaped road, preventing the test from being completed. Instructor Shojiro Kubota told Hyelim Ha that she had been without reasons accelerated and slowed down on a straight section of the road, and then entered into a turn at a higher speed than before drinking, and also moved into the opposite lane. At the same time, the journalist was sure that she didn’t break any rules and drove the car quite tolerably.

"Even though drinking impairs skills, necessary for people to drive, such as cognitive abilities, ability to judge and maneuver a vehicle, a driver assumes that he is driving safely - this is the danger of driving drunk," Kubota said.





It is noted that the experiment was launched in connection with the tragedy 17 years ago: a drunk municipal employee crashed into a car with family and killed three small children. At the trial, the man assured that the car he drove confidently and the accident was not due to alcohol.