Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer for life

Re:Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer fo... by giantg2 on Thursday November 28, 2019 @10:00PM (#21661668)

There are companies creating blood alcohol detection devices that would be an integral part of new vehicles. They can detect alcohol in the cabin air or from the driver's finger. It's only a matter of time before they become mandatory on all new cars, similar to airbags and TPMS.

The scary part is how inaccurate and secretive breathalyzers can be. You have no right to cross examine the machine's software or anything. It's a magic blackbox that is treated as irrefutable truth.

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Re:Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer fo... by perl4ever on Thursday November 28, 2019 @10:34PM (#21661814)

If something becomes universal, then any problem with false positives will be exposed through large numbers, and be fixed.

Also, in the US, and I assume in Canada, standards for new cars have generally not affected peoples' rights to continue owning and driving existing cars. If new requirements are really onerous, it will increase the market for previously produced cars, and then we can debate whether to force people to upgrade or something.

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Re:Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer fo... by throwaway40324 on Friday November 29, 2019 @01:28AM (#21662498)

Sounds similar to the SCRAM ankle bracelets. IIRC..they read from the offenders skin precipitation.

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Re:Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer fo... by amatecha on Thursday November 28, 2019 @10:04PM (#21661678)

Hm interesting point.. what if I just used alcohol-based hand sanitizer?

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