How come it so hard to find those select people who use, and can distinguish the difference between,
DUI and
DWI correctly?
First off, I don't much care how, why or what you refer to as a person who was caught 'drinking and driving', but it's just weird that so many people can get tripped up and swear that DWI is the correct way to go, no alternatives. I know this is a question that does not have a definitive right or wrong answer, so the followup:
"A DUI to me is ___ ; on the other hand, a DWI is ___."
My answer
click to show DUI equates to "driving under the influence (of alchohol, narcotics, heavy prescription pharmaceuticals, what have you).
A DWI is "driving without identification (concerning a vaild and correcr driver's license).
The above is just my take; I know some states refer to the two differently than I do, and sometimes coalesce or mix the two abbreviations, interchangeably, in court documents. One example of the flipside (which I consider wrong, but perhaps others do not) is "DWI = Driving While Intoxicated" and "DUI = Driving Un-Identified".
I'm actually pondering if I can recall this discussion from a years' past thread, as I'm not all too uncertain this might have already been proposed before.
What is your take?