You are driving your personal car in North Carolina. What blood alcohol concentration triggers immediate revocation of your driving privilege based on the test result alone?
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A.
0.08 percent Correct
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B.
0.04 percent
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C.
0.10 percent
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D.
0.02 percent
The answer is "0.08 percent"
Your driving privilege is revoked once a chemical test reads 0.08 percent or more when you are driving your personal car. Choice B carries over the 0.04 figure printed for commercial vehicles in the same paragraph and applies it to the wrong driver class.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. 0.04 percent
0.04 is the commercial motor vehicle threshold, not the personal car limit. This answer picks the lower of the two BAC figures in the paragraph without checking which vehicle class each belongs to.
C. 0.10 percent
North Carolina does not use 0.10 percent as its DWI threshold. This answer uses the 0.10 threshold that was standard nationwide before the shift to 0.08.
D. 0.02 percent
The manual does not set 0.02 as the adult DWI threshold for a personal vehicle. This answer reaches for the 0.02 zero-tolerance figure remembered from underage-driver rules and applies it to an adult driver.
This question tests your knowledge of DUI & Impaired Driving in North Carolina. Source: North Carolina Driver Handbook, "Chapter 2 - Alcohol and the Law: Driving While Impaired," p.31..
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