Is this better than driving drunk?

A 9-year-old girl, propped on a booster seat behind the steering wheel of a van, was her father's "designated driver" .

When an officer stopped the van, the girl's response, police said, was, "What did you stop me for? I was driving good."

Earlier, as surveillance cameras recorded the scene, the father told a Detroit-area store clerk that he had been drinking.

"I've got a designated driver," the man said, according to the tape, after strolling into a Citgo gas station with his daughter about 3 a.m. on October 8.

The store's cameras captured footage of the child emerging from the driver's door of a red van after it pulled alongside a gas pump and jerked to a full stop.

"She drives us here," the man said on camera. "Nine years old, in the truck, we're here. She drove all the way here."

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-10-18/us/us_michigan-driver-daughter_1_surveillance-cameras-booster-seat-gas-station?_s=PM:US