No photo nor photoshop trickery here, this is really the reflection of me trying to drink N drive.
You've seen the commercials, heard the ads, maybe even tried it yourself. What's behind this craze? Going against the grain, I decided to root my way to the bottom of it personally.
First thing to keep in mind is that it's totally illegal. For me that made it just that much more appealing. I was in a closed area with a specially modified car and safety personnel close on hand. If you are a licensed driver on open roads, well that's just stupid. Trouble and danger await you. If my hack camera man can catch me swigging my bottle in the mirror alone, think how obvious it must be to a trained policeman.
Next thing is, drinking is really a two-handed operation. How can you keep any appendage on the wheel? Exactly, you can't, so stop trying.
Then you've got visibility issues. One reason people drink and drive is because they can't look past the bottle. I concur! Couldn't see anything past it, the thing takes up much of my field of vision and the tipping makes it even worse. That's no good for safety.
The big thing though is the impairment factor. While drinking I couldn't operate even my highly modified car's wheel or buttons, let alone the array of levers and knobs I may never comprehend. Couldn't even keep my head on straight enough to try. Eventually nothing else mattered and I fell over backwards, still content with my drinking, oblivious to everything else. Finally, without even shutting it off, I stopped and went away. Good times in the testing lab, bad times for the road.
Multi-tasking is all well and good, but learn from my mistakes. If you can't put down the bottle, call a cab. Even if you don't call it a cab, call anyhow. Think about the children.
