Personal Health
A sleepless person is always more impaired than an person with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.08.
Impairment after 17-24 hours of continuous wakefulness can be comparable to, and in some tasks worse than, impairment at a BAC of about 0.08.
Sleep loss and alcohol intoxication produce entirely different effects, so they cannot be compared.
Alcohol intoxication always produces greater driving and cognitive impairment than sleep loss.