Originally Posted by
wiggy
Never heard of that incident and subsequent experiment so just like Airbubba I'd be very interested in a reference..or at least some idea of how long ago it is supposed to have happened....
Sometime between 1977 and 1983 Car & Driver magazine (USA) published an article in which its staff took their favourite tipple to a test of how drink affected their driving. Various tasks driving around cones were performed as they got progressively drunker. In fact to the point that some could not even stand up, but could still drive -- not well though. However for most a "quick sharpener" did indeed sharpen their ability, although past a certain point destruction of cones became ever greater.
A couple of years later they repeated it with marijuana, but not being a smoker I wasn't interested in the conclusions.
C&D do not seem to have an online archive, shame it was always a very entertaining read.
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