sys technically didn't say the laws were too strict...
well, that's what i meant. they're ridiculous. "driving drunk" treats a continuous variable (degree impaired) as a binary condition and punishes many one-time, scarcely impaired violators by effectively making them unemployable - aside from other penalties.
other comparable impairments (tired, texting, eating, reading, watching video, etc, etc, etc) are either not prohibited, prohibitions are not enforced or penalties are orders of magnitude lesser.
society is not served by rendering otherwise productive people unemployable. nor is it just.