Generally speaking, you are not allowed to have an open container of alcohol inside the passenger area of a vehicle. The trunk, however, is almost universally accepted as a safe place to store an open ...

Before Tennessee passed its "open container" law in 1994, drivers could legally drink while behind the wheel, if their blood alcohol content stayed below 0.08%. While state law now makes that ...

Massachusetts was one of the first states to criminalize drunk driving in 1907, almost a century before Congress mandated national standards in 1998. At that time, Congress also required states to ...