Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars
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You chaps do realise it's already illegal to drive over the limit, right?
If they catch you now, you're fucked, and what's more you deserve to be. I know people who've suffered life changing injuries due to a drunk driver, and the driver thought he was absolutely fine.
@doctor-phibes said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
You chaps do realise it's already illegal to drive over the limit, right?
If they catch you now, you're fucked, and what's more you deserve to be. I know people who've suffered life changing injuries due to a drunk driver, and the driver thought he was absolutely fine.
That’s not debatable. Personally, I would approve of stiffer penalties.
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You chaps do realise it's already illegal to drive over the limit, right?
If they catch you now, you're fucked, and what's more you deserve to be. I know people who've suffered life changing injuries due to a drunk driver, and the driver thought he was absolutely fine.
@doctor-phibes said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
You chaps do realise it's already illegal to drive over the limit, right?
A minor detail. Probably not to be taken seriously when personal civil liberties are involved.
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It's a simple choice, really.
Freedom vs. safety.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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@jolly said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
It's a simple choice, really.
Freedom vs. safety.
The thing about impaired driving is that you're affecting other people's safety as well as your own. Your claim to freedom ends when you adversely affect my children's safety.
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I remember a few years back a drunk driver sued the bar that served him after he got injured after falling off his stupid motorbike. What a cock.
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Read a little more about this. It’s absurd.
Do any of your cars have lane departure mitigation? Our new Honda does. It’s a feature that I had to turn off because I naturally end to hug the center line. Not cross the line, but run within 2-3 feet. Where I grew up we had very narrow road lanes due to the terrain. With the lane departure mitigation on, it is always trying to correct me. According to the technology they are citing in the article, I would be pulled over and shut down. Screw that.
Beyond that, why not set it up for other offenses? Driving 10 MPH over the speed limit? Pull it over and shut it down… Go through a stop sign? Shut it down… Run a yellow a little too late? Here’s your ticket… Would likely save more lives than the drunk driving mitigation….
The Brad
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Read a little more about this. It’s absurd.
Do any of your cars have lane departure mitigation? Our new Honda does. It’s a feature that I had to turn off because I naturally end to hug the center line. Not cross the line, but run within 2-3 feet. Where I grew up we had very narrow road lanes due to the terrain. With the lane departure mitigation on, it is always trying to correct me. According to the technology they are citing in the article, I would be pulled over and shut down. Screw that.
Beyond that, why not set it up for other offenses? Driving 10 MPH over the speed limit? Pull it over and shut it down… Go through a stop sign? Shut it down… Run a yellow a little too late? Here’s your ticket… Would likely save more lives than the drunk driving mitigation….
@lufins-dad said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
Beyond that, why not set it up for other offenses? Driving 10 MPH over the speed limit? Pull it over and shut it down… Go through a stop sign? Shut it down… Run a yellow a little too late? Here’s your ticket… Would likely save more lives than the drunk driving mitigation….
Great ideas, thanks
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Read a little more about this. It’s absurd.
Do any of your cars have lane departure mitigation? Our new Honda does. It’s a feature that I had to turn off because I naturally end to hug the center line. Not cross the line, but run within 2-3 feet. Where I grew up we had very narrow road lanes due to the terrain. With the lane departure mitigation on, it is always trying to correct me. According to the technology they are citing in the article, I would be pulled over and shut down. Screw that.
Beyond that, why not set it up for other offenses? Driving 10 MPH over the speed limit? Pull it over and shut it down… Go through a stop sign? Shut it down… Run a yellow a little too late? Here’s your ticket… Would likely save more lives than the drunk driving mitigation….
@lufins-dad said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
Read a little more about this. It’s absurd.
Do any of your cars have lane departure mitigation? Our new Honda does. It’s a feature that I had to turn off because I naturally end to hug the center line. Not cross the line, but run within 2-3 feet. Where I grew up we had very narrow road lanes due to the terrain. With the lane departure mitigation on, it is always trying to correct me. According to the technology they are citing in the article, I would be pulled over and shut down. Screw that.
Beyond that, why not set it up for other offenses? Driving 10 MPH over the speed limit? Pull it over and shut it down… Go through a stop sign? Shut it down… Run a yellow a little too late? Here’s your ticket… Would likely save more lives than the drunk driving mitigation….
There's been an ever increasing level of safety legislation in cars over the last few decades, and if you look at the death rates, it's worked. I'd be willing to bet that there was resistance to almost every improvement from some quarters.
I was only joking
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@lufins-dad said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
Read a little more about this. It’s absurd.
Do any of your cars have lane departure mitigation? Our new Honda does. It’s a feature that I had to turn off because I naturally end to hug the center line. Not cross the line, but run within 2-3 feet. Where I grew up we had very narrow road lanes due to the terrain. With the lane departure mitigation on, it is always trying to correct me. According to the technology they are citing in the article, I would be pulled over and shut down. Screw that.
Beyond that, why not set it up for other offenses? Driving 10 MPH over the speed limit? Pull it over and shut it down… Go through a stop sign? Shut it down… Run a yellow a little too late? Here’s your ticket… Would likely save more lives than the drunk driving mitigation….
There's been an ever increasing level of safety legislation in cars over the last few decades, and if you look at the death rates, it's worked. I'd be willing to bet that there was resistance to almost every improvement from some quarters.
@doctor-phibes said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
@lufins-dad said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
Read a little more about this. It’s absurd.
Do any of your cars have lane departure mitigation? Our new Honda does. It’s a feature that I had to turn off because I naturally end to hug the center line. Not cross the line, but run within 2-3 feet. Where I grew up we had very narrow road lanes due to the terrain. With the lane departure mitigation on, it is always trying to correct me. According to the technology they are citing in the article, I would be pulled over and shut down. Screw that.
Beyond that, why not set it up for other offenses? Driving 10 MPH over the speed limit? Pull it over and shut it down… Go through a stop sign? Shut it down… Run a yellow a little too late? Here’s your ticket… Would likely save more lives than the drunk driving mitigation….
There's been an ever increasing level of safety legislation in cars over the last few decades, and if you look at the death rates, it's worked. I'd be willing to bet that there was resistance to almost every improvement from some quarters.
I would say there is a massive difference between crumple zones, airbag standards, and child restraints vs. the car not liking how you are driving and pulling over…
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@jolly said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
It's a simple choice, really.
Freedom vs. safety.
I agree. Again, you have to compromise to live in a civilized society.
You want 100% personal freedom to do what you want? Check out Eritrea, or a country like that.
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@jolly said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
It's a simple choice, really.
Freedom vs. safety.
Not exactly. Driving a motor vehicle on public roads is an earned privilege that comes with accountability. If you drink, don’t drive.
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@jolly said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
It's a simple choice, really.
Freedom vs. safety.
Not exactly. Driving a motor vehicle on public roads is an earned privilege that comes with accountability. If you drink, don’t drive.
@renauda said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
@jolly said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
It's a simple choice, really.
Freedom vs. safety.
Not exactly. Driving a motor vehicle on public roads is an earned privilege that comes with accountability. If you drink, don’t drive.
I agree. What I don’t agree with is the assumption of guilt that must be disproven to be allowed to drive.
The Brad
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@renauda said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
@jolly said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
It's a simple choice, really.
Freedom vs. safety.
Not exactly. Driving a motor vehicle on public roads is an earned privilege that comes with accountability. If you drink, don’t drive.
I agree. What I don’t agree with is the assumption of guilt that must be disproven to be allowed to drive.
Then what’s the issue here?
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@renauda said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
@jolly said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
It's a simple choice, really.
Freedom vs. safety.
Not exactly. Driving a motor vehicle on public roads is an earned privilege that comes with accountability. If you drink, don’t drive.
I agree. What I don’t agree with is the assumption of guilt that must be disproven to be allowed to drive.
@lufins-dad said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
I agree. What I don’t agree with is the assumption of guilt that must be disproven to be allowed to drive.
This.
I don't think I've ever driven while drunk, but if I'd had to buy a car with a device for detection, my first course of action would be to find a way to disable it.
I'm very much against the government micro-managing my life. I want a society of adults who can take care of themselves, not a society of kids who needs constant protection from themselves.
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Read a little more about this. It’s absurd.
Do any of your cars have lane departure mitigation? Our new Honda does. It’s a feature that I had to turn off because I naturally end to hug the center line. Not cross the line, but run within 2-3 feet. Where I grew up we had very narrow road lanes due to the terrain. With the lane departure mitigation on, it is always trying to correct me. According to the technology they are citing in the article, I would be pulled over and shut down. Screw that.
Beyond that, why not set it up for other offenses? Driving 10 MPH over the speed limit? Pull it over and shut it down… Go through a stop sign? Shut it down… Run a yellow a little too late? Here’s your ticket… Would likely save more lives than the drunk driving mitigation….
@lufins-dad said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
Read a little more about this. It’s absurd.
It may very well Bev absurd, but take into account the costs of drunk driving to the insurance industry. You can be rest assured civil interest groups such as MADD are the small lobbyists pushing for these regulations. My money is on the insurance industry to be the prime mover behind this and similar safety regulations. It would try such on its own but knows that it is much better to get the legislators on board and enact appropriate legislation. It’s a big win for insurers given the current medical and civil costs of drunk driving to the insurance industry.
As always, follow the money.
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@lufins-dad said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
Read a little more about this. It’s absurd.
It may very well Bev absurd, but take into account the costs of drunk driving to the insurance industry. You can be rest assured civil interest groups such as MADD are the small lobbyists pushing for these regulations. My money is on the insurance industry to be the prime mover behind this and similar safety regulations. It would try such on its own but knows that it is much better to get the legislators on board and enact appropriate legislation. It’s a big win for insurers given the current medical and civil costs of drunk driving to the insurance industry.
As always, follow the money.
@renauda said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
@lufins-dad said in Drunk Drive Sensors To Be Required in US Cars:
Read a little more about this. It’s absurd.
It may very well absurd, but take into account the costs of drunk driving to the insurance industry. You can be rest assured civil interest groups such as MADD are a small lobbyists pushing for these regulations. My money is on the insurance industry to be the prime mover behind this and similar safety regulations. It would try such on its own but knows that it is much better to get the legislators on board and enact appropriate legislation. It’s a big win for insurers given the current medical and civil costs of drunk driving to the insurance industry.
As always, follow the money.
So are the end results lower premiums for customers or record profits for the insurers?
The Brad
