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Congress mandates new car technology to stop drunken driving (2021)

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Re: Congress mandates new car technology to stop drunken driving (2021)

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Post by hammock »

OP article is from 2021 and is news this week because the House recently voted(1) to reaffirm the mandate that automakers include equipment in all vehicles by 2026 to detect driver impairment and automatically disable vehicles when it is detected

(1)https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/08/house-republicans-help-...

Re: Congress mandates new car technology to stop drunken driving (2021)

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Post by superkuh »

It is already illegal to drive on public roads or third party property while intoxicated. Drunk driving interlocks which you have to blow in are pretty much the only way this could possibly be implemented. But https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/business/drunk-driving-in... "The Unforeseen Dangers of a Device That Curbs Drunken Driving".

Re: Congress mandates new car technology to stop drunken driving (2021)

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Post by RC_ITR »

josephcsible wrote: post #3

This is terrible. All such systems will have false positives. It's wrong to treat everyone as a criminal instead of reserving such systems for people who actually have been convicted of it.

I'm sympathetic to this point of view, but then we have to be consistent with it.

No TSA. No license plate scanners. No fare gates for trains. No locks on doors. No anti-shoplifting tags.

EDIT: Is there some Emerson convention in town? You can look at my comments for some of his other quotes (It's actually not very surprising to me that an Anglo abolitionist who also believed that Anglos were the 'best' race wasn't a big fan of consistency!)

Re: Congress mandates new car technology to stop drunken driving (2021)

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Post by acbullen »

I am doubtful that unless a car is fully autonomous anyway having the car try to pull itself over against driver input will be that much safer. I can see many iterations causing accidents by suddenly slowing down or merging into another vehicle or parking on blind corners. Plus I imagine the 'drunk' driver would then leave the immobile vehicle, opening a host of pedestrian on road risks

Re: Congress mandates new car technology to stop drunken driving (2021)

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Post by josephcsible »

RC_ITR wrote: post #7
josephcsible wrote: post #3

This is terrible. All such systems will have false positives. It's wrong to treat everyone as a criminal instead of reserving such systems for people who actually have been convicted of it.

I'm sympathetic to this point of view, but then we have to be consistent with it. No TSA. No license plate scanners. No fare gates for trains. No locks on doors. No anti-shoplifting tags. EDIT: Is there some Emerson convention in town? You can look at my comments for some of his other quotes (It's actually not very surprising to me that an Anglo abolitionist who also believed that Anglos were the 'best' race wasn't a…

The difference is that you own your car, but not those other things. Things you own should always do what you want, not try to enforce laws against you.
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