Reply #33: Why?

[wuushew]

Drunk drivers endanger YOU and others, raise your insurance rates and increase strain put on police and medical services.

Since everyone one on this board should consider impaired driving a dangerously immoral and reckless act what freedom are you losing? You are gaining quite a bit.

Seatbelt use and obeying the rules of the road are also mandated as part of the privilege of using public roads. Do you object to the concept of implied consent as well? Any police officer can demand that you give a blood or urine test. A properly functioning alcohol detector wouldn't unfairly judge you or socially humiliate you the way a cop might, nor would a breathalyzer knock out your tail light.

It need not be a breathalyzer either. A similar article in LBN mentioned the possibility of measuring alcohol with a simple optic device based designs used in blood sugar testing. Why should we even need keys in the future? Maybe a quick one or two second thumb print would be all we need to enter our vehicles.


This seems like a victory for both public safety and applied engineering.