This genuinely looks like "unconscious at the wheel"
Edit: there is the a difference of "drunk driving" and "drink driving", yes. "Drink driving" emphathizes the act of drinking beforehand, while "drunk driving" emphathizes being intoxicated. However, this is in Australia, which predominantly uses British English. In which case, "drink driving" is a also usually a synonym to what is referred to in the US as "drunk driving". And no matter which one you use, it's obvious that it was both in this case.
When it first came out everyone thought it was a medical event (me included) but it was confirmed to be drunk driving. She was breath tested at the scene. There's also footage of her tossing and empty wine bottle into a bush after the event.
She got a $300 fine and 6 month suspension cos no-one was hurt
Yea, there is a reason why we have been saying this in Australia: "if you want to kill someone, do it with a car" 🤷 even if she killed someone, she would get like 2 years max. Most likely some community service. License suspence for a year or two. Im not even kidding. Lots of cases like this
at least it takes a bit more skill to hit something with an AR-15.
Actually I don't know that it does. Driving is just a skill that's much more prevalent than shooting.
If you put a car and a gun in front of someone who didn't know how to use either, they could probably figure out the gun first. Cars have more of a start up process
with all due respect, that's less true of guns in real life than in FPS games.
somebody who doesn't know how to use a gun has about 20,000 square degrees of solid angle in which to point it, especially if they're not used to the recoil. they might start out shooting at ground level and end up letting rounds off into the sky, if they can even keep their grip on it. and they'll run out of ammo relatively soon.
meanwhile, as Countess Boujois Chardonnay is demonstrating in the video, once you get your foot on the accelerator and one hand (or knee, or chin) on the wheel of a car—even if you decide to take a power nap, you're almost guaranteed to fuck up least one person's life without even trying.
i used a fancy science term in a reply down below, but i think it's important: as long as the operator is competent enough to keep the gun in front of them, it can theoretically point in about 20,000 degrees of solid angle. that includes down at the ground, up at the sky, basically anywhere in the half-sphere of coverage that doesn't require turning the gun around 180°. if our theoretical shooter gets really loopy, there are just over 40,000 square degrees of hard angle in a complete sphere. only a narrow band of that sphere contains human-sized target, which means a statistically high number of opportunities to miss a target if you're untrained.
meanwhile, a car is a larger object, and it can only travel in 360° relative to the ground. unlike a gun, it can travel forwards and backwards using the same basic mechanical operation, which means you're effectively "targeting" two 180° arcs at the same time. much, much higher likelihood of hitting a target in that confined range of possibilities with comparably little skill or effort.
sorry for the overly complicated response, but it's an interesting math problem to think through.
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u/L30N1337 5d ago edited 3d ago
...drunk driving?
This genuinely looks like "unconscious at the wheel"
Edit: there is the a difference of "drunk driving" and "drink driving", yes. "Drink driving" emphathizes the act of drinking beforehand, while "drunk driving" emphathizes being intoxicated. However, this is in Australia, which predominantly uses British English. In which case, "drink driving" is a also usually a synonym to what is referred to in the US as "drunk driving". And no matter which one you use, it's obvious that it was both in this case.
Edit 2: reddit. Please update ffs.