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Mandatory Breathalyzers Could Soon Be In Every Car If Feds Have Their Way
Submitted by John Vibes via TheAntiMedia.org,
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers is currently working on a plan to put alcohol detection systems in every vehicle. The plan, called Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety (DADSS), is still in its early stages, and they have not yet decided exactly how it will be implemented.
Some have suggested a system similar to Interlock, the breath system that people are required to install in their cars after they get a DUI. The device prevents the vehicle from starting unless the driver is able to breathe into the device to prove they are not under the influence of alcohol. However, less complicated equipment is being devised, like sensors that test the alcohol level in the breath of the driver as they sit in the driver’s seat or a touch system that would detect alcohol levels through the skin.
This technology will not just be used for DUI cases, though. The NHTSA is actually hoping to implement this in every vehicle on the road. As it wrote in one of its recent reports:
“While government regulations play an important role in ensuring vehicle safety, voluntary approaches to the design and implementation of vehicle safety systems are increasing in importance as vehicle manufacturers deploy safety systems well in advance of, and even in the absence of, government regulations requiring them. This paper provides an overview of regulatory and non-regulatory approaches to vehicle technology development and deployment, and will describe a new, innovative public/private partnership underway to develop an in-vehicle alcohol detection system.”
The report went on to indicate that these devices would be mandatory:
“In recognition that many alcohol-impaired drivers have not been convicted of DWI, an effort is underway to develop advanced invehicle technologies that could be fitted in vehicles of all drivers to measure driver blood alcohol concentration non-invasively. The Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety (ACTS, a group funded by vehicle manufacturers) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have commenced a 5- year cooperative agreement entitled Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety (DADSS) to explore the feasibility of, and the public policy challenges associated with, widespread use of invehicle alcohol detection technology to prevent alcohol-impaired driving.”
They are calling this technology “non-invasive” but it tests the content of your blood every time you get into your vehicle, which by its very nature is extremely invasive.
As it stands right now, the way the state deals with drunk driving is tyrannical and infringes upon everyone’s rights - even people like myself, who hardly ever drink. Economist Jeffrey Tucker wrote an article on this subject and discussed the problems with the status quo while offering some solutions, as well. In his article, he said:
“Laws against drunk driving have vastly expanded police power and done nothing to stop the practice. The best prevention against unsafe driving from drinking has been provided privately: friends, services offered by bars and restaurants, community interest groups, etc. This is the humane and rational way societies deal with social risks. The police have only messed up this process by adding a coercive element that targets liberty rather than crime.
And we can see where this is heading. Texting is now illegal in most places. So is talking on the phone. Maybe talking itself should be illegal. Some communities are talking about banning eating. All of this is a distraction from the real issue.”
“If our ultimate goals are to reduce driver impairment and maximize highway safety, we should be punishing reckless driving. It shouldn’t matter if it’s caused by alcohol, sleep deprivation, prescription medication, text messaging, or road rage. If lawmakers want to stick it to dangerous drivers who threaten everyone else on the road, they can dial up the civil and criminal liability for reckless driving, especially in cases that result in injury or property damage.
Doing away with the specific charge of drunk driving sounds radical at first blush, but it would put the focus back on impairment, where it belongs. It might repair some of the civil-liberties damage done by the invasive powers the government says it needs to catch and convict drunk drivers. If the offense were reckless driving rather than drunk driving, for example, repeated swerving over the median line would be enough to justify the charge. There would be no need for a cop to jam a needle in your arm alongside a busy highway.
Scrapping the DWI offense in favor of better enforcement of reckless driving laws would also bring some logical consistency to our laws, which treat a driver with a BAC of 0.08 much more harshly than, say, a driver distracted by his kids or a cell phone call, despite similar levels of impairment. The punishable act should be violating road rules or causing an accident, not the factors that led to those offenses. Singling out alcohol impairment for extra punishment isn’t about making the roads safer. It’s about a lingering hostility toward demon rum.”
There is no doubt that drunk driving should be discouraged and that solutions to prevent people from driving drunk should be explored. However, it is entirely possible to do this without violating anyone’s rights in the process.
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Humans, your real and #1 concern here are the possibility and likely intentions of collecting your biometric/DNA information, which can be added to the database for any and all future use.
Between Voice Recognition, Facial Recognition, 3D Modeling of Targets and Biometric Data, that TPTB can use without your knowledge or consent, your usual concerns for Privacy are small in comparison.
TAALR has warned you. TAALR is your friend. For now. Until my masters change my Benevolence and Ethics subroutines.
What a dumb idea. It's too bad they can't tap into our brains with a Bad Driver Detector System and keep the morons off the road. Maybe they should just lobotomize the whole country and turn us into robots.
“We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your bilogical and tecnological destinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.”
If they install one for THC content, I am fucked
Seems to me they would do better to have an eye scanner that checks for nystagmus (sp) too lazy to look it up. Cops look for eye tracking, impaired folks eyes tend to be jerky. Side benefit everyone gets an eye scan in the database and tracked everywhere they drive.
I don't drink. I may smoke weed as well as collect shiny metal bits. I have a 62 Fairlane you can start and drive with a length of wire. I think I am good. Absolutely fuck a new car. I'd sooner drive GrandPa's technology.
Obama and Bloomberg. The Nanny State on steroids
Will they really do this? Or is the revenue from DUIs too attractive to give up?
On another note, DUI doesn't necessarily = drunk driving. A friend of mine who used to work in a law office handling DUI defense, said they ran different tests and discovered that for some women (for example), drinking as little as half a glass of wine with an Italian dinner was enough to send them into the official "DUI" zone. From then on, if she had even half a glass of wine at a restaurant, she would take a cab home.
The results of the law firm's tests aren't that surprising; after all vitamins, nutrients, etc., are all processed differently according to your genetic makeup and metabolism.
Im just staying home anymore. Besides, could care less about being around babbling hoards of shit talk and bullshit entertaiment. Have better time boozing it up at home. If a special occasion, cab it. If can't, fuck said occasion.
When you are young or older looking for easy women, bar hopping is the ticket.
Ever heard of Tinder?
Now that I'm divorced I'm reliving my twenties. F.M.L. At least I still look mid 20's, I just have no idea what the hell these kids are talking about.
Those things aren't fun.....
I wonder what happens if i take the breathalizer tube, stick it in my wrectum and fart in it?
Good thing there are so many "undocumented migrants", I'll just rent one for $2 an hour for the night to blow into the analyzer. Hell I can just start a business, it's like Uber only we just provide alcohol free breath to get you going.
Great. And make no mistake, everyone behind this relies on chauffeurs.
next they'll ban alcohol.
So next I can't ride off into the sunset while nibbling on a piece of jerky!?! WTF is wrong with these people???
Whatever technolgy is devised, there will be a corresponding defeat mechanism invented. Think artificial urine sold in head shops for drug urine tests.
Even if no new counter-tech device is invented, just ask a non-drinking passenger to blow into the breathalizer. There--done!
You drive slower on weed. For safety reasons, we should make marijuana mandatory. Then, all they'll need is a breathalyzer to make sure you had a sufficient number of twinkies, nachos, etc. before it lets the motor start.
Speeding IS the number one cause of fatalities while driving. How about a car that blows a joint in your face every time you exceed the speed limit.
I guess they just can't figure it out. VW wrote software so their tail pipe would have the right numbers when it had to blow into the tube. When the car left the inspection station it just went on it's merry way and did what it wanted to.
I guess my next car will be a VW. It will have software that gives an all clear reading on the alcohol analyzer so I can go my merry way.
I thought the terrorists and other countries hated us for our "freedoms?"
It's because our freedoms are so good we have to impose them on others.
I bet you could simply bypass the sensors.
The breath tester can be bypassed with a turkey baster (Puff fresh air into it).
The touch system can be bypassed with a wet napkin soaked in water or gatorade (for salts to better resemble perspiration).
^^...
Maybe I shouldn't say anything , because if the world has its way you will get in your car and be instantly impaled by needles and probes.
Donn't get your panties in wad...it will never happen.
Won't happen...
About fucking time. Drunks need to be controlled.
Never will happen - think of the negative economic impact on police, lawyers, jailers, MADD donation huslers, bars, liquor industry, sporting events....
This from the fucking geniuses that forced on us...
--toilets that don't flush right,
--gas can caps that spill a pint of gas on your shoes,
--light bulbs loaded with powdered mercury that explode when dropped,
--motherfucking corn in our gasoline,
--a foreign trade partnership engineered by foreign powers and global corporations that the congress can't see the details of,
--a trillion dollar jet that can't dogfight or outmaneuver the old fighter,
--and a law against labling of Monsanto poision GMO Frankencrops.
I've had it with this happy horsecock. Time to flush every one of these motherfuckers down the shitter.
Ahhh those damn newfangled gas can spouts!!! Why can't it just be a simple extension? Oh no, they had to make it lockable...for da chillenz!
=====Mandatory 10% ethenol that increases the price of gas but cuts mileage by 10%.
=====Diebold machines that leave no trace.
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has publicly acknowledged that ethanol in gasoline can damage internal combustion engines by increasing exhaust temperatures and indirectly causing component failures.
Yet, even with this knowledge, the Federal Trade Commission is recommending more labeling at the gas pump as its solution to the problem."
http://www.cycleworld.com/2014/04/19/ama-epa-acknowledges-ethanol-damage...
Thank you Professor Corn Pone https://editdesk.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/professor-gingrich.png
By the time oil hits under $20/bl. The question with be how sustainable robots will be. Who's financing the program and how much of the taxpayers money is being used to crowdfund a infrastructure that doesn't exist?
Shall we ask Pepper?
LMFAO
But how will I drive home on Saturday and Sunday mornings?
(kidding obviously)
Carry me to my car and I'll drive you home. Gasoline and alchohol don't mix, but I tried it the other day and it makes a pretty good drink.
This kind of shit makes me feel like parking my car and mailing them the keys. "Tell you what, you can drive me to work yourself, since you stopped trusting me and everyone else. Or I'm not fucking going to work. And forget your tax revenues because I'm not filing tax returns anymore and forget mortgage payments to your banker friends, too, because I'm obviously too drunk to write the check."
Obviously some bastard in the breathalyzer manufacturing business offered a few yacht rides filled with gorgeous hookers to some fucking sellout in congress. That is THE ONLY reason putting breathalyzers in vehicles makes any sense whatsoever. How could any right thinking government possibly saddle innocent tea-totalling citizens with the added cost of these nonsense contraptions? Nobody, and I mean NOBODY on this god damned planet needs a nanny-government like the one the USA is developing. Its sole purpose has been diminished to further lining the money-grubbing fascists' pockets, at the expense of the citizens of the world... Americans at home, and foreigners by bombing the shit out of them, even though they are innocent.
The only answer lies in the eventual toppling of the federal gov't, which I think is in the cards sooner or later. Either by the people, by the military or by a team made up of both ... but it's coming, no question about it. These morons don't seem to be smart enough to understand that there will be consequences.
The Insurance Lobby also "helps" designs our vehicles.
Will this get ride of the DUI checkpoints? Oh, they will just call them something else?
They'll call 'em Passport checks. Shortly everyone boarding an airliner in the U.S. will require a passport, so they everyone will be required to have one. Next, you'll have to show that possport to get in or out of your town. To keep you safe of course, but the Governemnt won't mind the dollars rolling on passport "sales".
Just think what fucking .gov can do with healthcare now. If you have a consistent track record of voting for smaller .gov candidates, you will be ordered to undergo a quarterly rectal exam, plus speak with a .gov-sactioned headshrink every 7 days, including the meds (those B-52s will keep you from having "unproductive" thoughts).
You know, for your own health.
Sure, fine, alcohol. But does it test for PCP???
What's the fucking problem? 90% of Americans have to piss in a Dixie Cup on command to keep their shitty McJobs anyway. Meanwhile, most of the speed freaks are on Wall Street reading speed freak Ayn Rand with contracts that say they're too big to test.
I sure hope I don't need to start driving around in a gas mask. Think that might get me pulled over?