“AlcoVision”-Goggles

In the aim to make young people understand how alcohol can affect your vision without even realizing it, the RYD’s volunteers go to events, schools, safety days,… in order to inform and show them that alcohol and driving don't go well together. Therefore, the volunteers display their AlcoVision Goggles and draw a small course with cones, which enables young people to better understand the different effects of impaired driving. People are zigzagging, making uncertain moves, stepping aside, knocking over the cones… realizing, by seeing through the goggles, without even drinking one glass of alcohol, that everything is different and endlessly out of control.

The effects of alcohol on the body are often underestimated:

Alteration of the vision (visibility drops)
Alteration of movements
Alteration of the reflexes
Alteration of the behaviour
Difficulty of recognition
Bad estimation of elements such as speed, distance, etc..., which you need to drive carefully and to be responsible
Feeling invulnerable, the best one and then taking useless risks

Our “AlcoVision”-Goggles are used to show what the eyes perceive when somebody is under the influence of alcohol. The consequences of this “impaired” vision are amazing: loss of balance, bad estimation of distances and speed, double vision etc…

Different types of goggles are available to make the exercise even more efficient:

The first one simulates a blood alcohol level between 0,7‰ and 1,0‰ (approximately 4 biers)

A second one simulates a blood alcohol level between 1,7‰ and 2,0‰ (from 6 to 8 glass of alcohol)

And a third one simulates a blood alcohol level higher than 2,5‰ (more than enough)

A night version of those goggles is available. It conditions the user to a dark environment. This night situation is the accurate reproduction of weekend nights, which are usually the most killing nights of the week.