🚀 go-pugleaf

Scott Weiser <weiser@dimensional.com> wrote:

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>It does require training to be able to properly recognize and evaluate
>HGN, but with training and experience it's a potent tool in the
>anti-DUI arsenal.  It's by no means the only tool, nor is it 100%
>definitive, but what is?  It's simply another method of evaluating
>intoxication.  People may have slurred speech and stagger because they
>are having an insulin reaction or a stroke, they may drive poorly
>because they are poor drivers, and it's the job of the police officer
>to use every tool at his command to carefully evaluate and distinguish
>intoxicated persons from those who simply drive badly.

Now _that's_ an interesting statement.  We have to tell the intoxicated
apart from the incompetent; we jail the intoxicated and allow the 
incompetent to drive on down the road, even though the intoxicated
individual might actually be a better driver than the incompetent one.
I've also read that a person talking on a cell phone while driving will
have his or her driving degrade to a point that their performance is
equivalent to having a BAC of .08.  We'll jail a person with .08 BAC
but let Joe lawyer drive on down the road talking on his phone and 
reading a brief.

This all strikes me as quite bizarre.