Subscribe to Our Changing World for free on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, RadioPublic or wherever you listen to your podcastsĪccording to University of Waikato psychologists Professor Nicola Starkey and Professor Samuel Charlton, the answer is a resounding ‘no.’įrom their research into driver behaviour and road safety, they know that there are a variety of reasons why driving in that scenario is not a good idea.īasically, when we’ve been drinking socially we are very bad at assessing how intoxicated we are. Nicola Starkey and Samuel Charlton with the car and video screens where drivers take part in road safety experiments.
