What effect does alcohol consumption have on the driver's abilities?

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Alcohol acts as a depressant of the central nervous system. One of its most deceptive initial effects is the alteration of emotions and of risk perception: it produces a false state of euphoria, optimism and overestimation of one's own abilities, which leads the driver to adopt dangerous behaviors. Saying that it reduces reaction time is incorrect, because alcohol lengthens it: it takes longer to perceive danger and press the brake. And saying that it widens the field of vision is false, because it reduces peripheral vision and causes the well-known “tunnel effect”.

What effect does alcohol consumption have on the driver's abilities?

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