There's a reason why Ford's 'Drink Driving Suit' - comprising ear muffs, elbow and knee pads, goggles, weights and neck brace - uses inverted apostrophes in its accompanying guidebook. 

Watch Gabriella test the drink drive suit at the end of the article. 

It's because it's not technically a suit. Were a high street chain to manufacturer office wear consisting of a collar, lapels, cuffs, and waistband only, people up and the land would be demanding their money back (and their colleagues dry boaking into wastepaper bins at the sight of uncovered personnel in the workplace).

But moving beyond this pedantic point, the Ford Drink Driving Suit (lets unrobe it of its punctuation for now) is undoubtedly a good educational tool. Its premise is simple - attach the component parts to your person and engage in everyday activities to see the effects that alcohol can have on basic motor functions.

Ford developed the suit with scientists from the Meyer-Hentschel Institut in Germany; a company specialising in research into the effects of mobility impairment.

"People trying on the Drink Driving Suit for the first time soon find that they struggle with everyday tasks they would usually take for granted - such as picking up a cup or dialling a telephone number," said Gundolf Meyer-Hentschel, company founder and chief executive officer.

"It provides a powerful way of reinforcing the serious message of what could happen when driving under the influence of excessive alcohol."

The suit is, in part, a response to the announcement by the Government to reduce Scotland's drink driving limit from on December 5 by cutting legal blood alcohol limits from 80mg to 50g in every 100ml of blood.

It's also been incorporated into Ford's Driving Skills For Life - the company's program aimed at young drivers to improve knowledge and awareness in the key factors that contribute to a road crash. These include speed management, distracted and impaired driving, hazard recognition and vehicle handling.

To put this to the test, a suit is delivered to the HeraldScotland office. It comes in an enormous suitcase with wheels and a handle and one of my colleagues, quite marvellously, asks if fish is contained inside. No fish, instead plastic glasses containing tunnel vision effect lenses and a leg weight as heavy as a Christmas Day episode of EastEnders.

With my editor on filming duties, we set up some "everyday tasks" for me to contend with, beginning with drinking a glass of water. Wearing the goggles, however, two glasses appear, and the act of picking up the cup gives a 50/50 chance of knocking it over thanks to my double vision.

Luckily I grasp the correct one first time. For extra disorientation, a heavy weight is strapped to my ankle, while two weights are attached to the opposing arm to make walking more difficult. And not just difficult - painful.

I don't remember being drunk to be like this.  I say remember like I'm casting my mind back to some distant time, when really I just mean last Saturday night at my sister's house eating party food with her wedding album out and debating whether to rashly smoke a cigar. This is nothing like that. This is cumbersome and frustrating, and the ear muffs make it difficult to find my bearings while lugging my heavy leg about.

I try to tackle the day's Herald crossword, but there are too many lines and words and it's confusing my senses, which ironically is exactly the reason I struggle with it sanssuit. Attempting to navigate my mobile phone gives me a headache, and I mentally vow to nick these goggles for my partner whose iPhone appears to be a permanent part of his person to try and see if this will put him off for good.

Does the suit make you feel like being drunk? Kind of, but without the weird behavioural aspects. To be an exact replication of being inebriated it would need to have a multipack of pickled onion crisps strapped to one of its parts which the user should consume in its entirety then cry profusely because someone mentioned their cat and it's now impossible not to think of all the cold and starving strays around the world.

But on a more serious note, it's a fair interpretation of how your body can fail you when intoxicated and it's easy to imagine how, if behind the wheel, this could lead to pretty disastrous circumstances - and that's without the extra ingredient of making poor judgment calls.

My tip: pick between the bevvy and the motor. If the suit is anything to go by, it's only going to lead to sight problems, a pronounced limp, and of course a whole host of much more serious issues if the two are mixed.