Posted on 03/12/2011 6:53:21 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., is the lead player in a legislative effort, already endorsed by a handful of other senators, that would spend $60 million to develop a program that would charge consumers for the costs of installing drunk-driving interlock devices in vehicles.
The proposal, S.510, was introduced this week in the U.S. Senate by Udall, who was joined by Sens. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Al Franken, D-Minn., Amy Klobuchar D-Minn., West John D. Rockefeller, D-W.Va., Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.
The legislation actually doesn't call for the technology to be installed in every vehicle but urges "more widespread deployment of in-vehicle technology to prevent alcohol-impaired driving." The device already is ordered into use sometimes by courts addressing cases of drunk drivers who offend repeatedly.
The proposal delivers $12 million to promoters of the program in each of five years for what the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration calls the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety.
The "fact sheet" posted by the federal agency describes the interest in "technologies that will quickly and accurately measure a driver's blood alcohol concentration (BAC) in a non-invasive manner. If the system detects that a driver is drunk, the vehicle will be disabled from being driven."
It has been suggested that a tissue spectrometry program, a touch-based approach in which sensors would measure the level of alcohol in tissue, might be used. Or the program might use the infrared light spectrum to "detect alcohol concentration in the driver's exhaled breath."
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How about an IQ test?
How about requiring they pass a basic test about the constitution?
How about they have to pass a nuisance or annoyance test?
There’s technology out there that is going way beyond a simple breathalyzer test.
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20090908/carnews/909089998
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Toyota’s breathalyzer, developed jointly with its truck subsidiary, Hino Motors Ltd., is about the size of a cell phone and combines an alcohol detection sensor and digital camera. As the driver blows into the sensor, a camera photographs the test-taker’s face. The dispatcher can check the photo to make sure the test-taker was indeed the authorized driver.
If the driver tests as inebriated, the system either warns the driver or locks the vehicle’s ignition, depending on the level of alcohol detected. It then contacts the fleet administrator.
Toyota’s breathalyzer comes on the heels of similar technology from Nissan Motor Co.
Nissan’s system uses sensors embedded in the transmission shifter knob and head rest to detect alcohol in the driver’s perspiration or exhaled air, instead of requiring the driver to blow into a sensor.
It also uses a camera to monitor the driver’s state of consciousness.
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Ain’t it fun.....
Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness
Certainly it does. Anything that's even legal to do to us should be mandatory to do to Congresscritters and civil serpents. We have jobs, whereas they're living on our forebearance. Anything situation that's good enough for us is probably TOO good for them.
Those work for me as well. Especially a test on the Constitution. More than basic even. Also the DoI and BoR.
He claims to be a maintenance man and at least three ways to spoof this thing didn't pop into his head unbidden? I'd fire him. He's obviously incompetent at the professions he claims to pursue.
Nope, sorry, what is legal for a business to require of employees has nothing to do with the authority of the government and the laws they may or may not pass.
I understand your point but am not referring to the limitations on what government can do to good people, you know, us. I’m talking about the living hell that should be the life of anyone who presumes to live off our tax money and make rules they expect us to obey. Not even sure they’re classified as humans. Surely Constitutional rights don’t extend that far down.
That's the point. Congress didn't make any law requiring private businesses to drug test employees it is legal because there is no law against it.
Yeah, you’d NEVER see this kind of legislation if ted kennedy were still alive...
Ok FINE ... WE, THE PEOPLE, do hereby demand a BREATHALYZER in the Senate and House Chamber, and Submission to a test BEFORE ANY vote is Cast!!!
Easy enough??
Then, when his lips grow back, we can talk about this lunacy.
Having never tasted alcohol, this would not be necessary for me. But, I buy 13 year old cars, so I won’t have to even think about it for a while.
Yep. A guy I know in Colorado was required to have one in his car after he would not permit the officer who stopped him to draw blood. (He hadn't been drinking). If he did not blow into it every 15 minutes, the car would shut down. It went off in traffic, he couldn't pull over, tried to blow into it to keep the car going and ended up in an accident.
Washington state does, after three DUI’s, or one felony DUI.
One of my colleagues recently missed a day of work when the system shut his car down because of a software glitch (he's completely turned his life around, so I believe him about this).
By the way, Canada will not allow felony DUI’s to cross the border, even if they are passengers.
Lets see them install one of these bad boys in the sentaors cars. Those guys can drink more than anyone one of us.
Or are they above us common folks?
It's not a very good disguise...
A great watch on this idiotic "daylight savings day". Thank you Congrab!
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