<human>: Can you succinctly summarize the text in 1-3 sentences?

As a non-American I, of course, get all my knowledge of American culture from TV and movies (that's how I know you all own guns, are deeply religious, and that there mutated ninja turtles living in your sewers). However, there is one thing that I often see in American movies and TV that I'm honestly not sure if it's just something that's made up by Hollywood or if it's actually a common occurrence: driving after consuming alcohol.

Where I'm from, almost no one gets behind the wheel after having consumed any amount of alcohol (unless it was a minuscule amount, and several hours have passed), and if you see it in Swedish movies, it usually signifies that the character is depressed and has "given up on life". I personally don't know anyone that has driven drunk. Not even after just having a single beer with dinner, or something.

That's why it seems so weird to me that in many American movies a character can be drinking a beer while driving, or leave a bar and drive home, without it being cast in a negative light or even seen as strange by anyone. Another example could be a stereotypical scene where two teenagers drive to some remote area, have a few beers and then have a cop come up to them and go: *"Herp derp. Go home, you unruly youngsters!"* and they just drive off without the cop giving a single fuck.

So, what I'm wondering is (
<bot>: here): Is it actually culturally acceptable to drive after drinking in the US, or is it just something that Hollywood made up because it's not very interesting to watch the protagonist take the bus after drowning his sorrows?