A new study of students who drink to become intoxicated has shown that they believe they are able drunk drivers.

The study involved 40 'binge drinkers' who were asked to do driving simulations after receiving a small dose of alcohol or placebo.  The study showed that all involved did poorly when intoxicated, whether they were binge drinkers or not.

But, the binge drinkers believed that they did quite well on the driving tests even though their results were equally poor.