Or you can blow something else!
Posted on 11/09/2021 2:50:29 PM PST by Mount Athos
Congress is requiring in its $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that automakers install monitoring systems in their cars to stop drivers from operating their vehicles while intoxicated.
Monitoring systems to stop drunk drivers would roll out in all new vehicles as early as 2026, according to the new legislation.
Some convicted drunk drivers already have to use breathalyzer devices attached to their vehicles' ignition interlock. By blowing into a tube, the system will disable the vehicle if the individual's blood alcohol level is above the legal threshold.
The Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety (DADSS) program is a public-private partnership partially funded by the government and is one of the groups currently working on two separate alcohol detection systems that would require no action from the driver.
The first is a sensor testing the air within the car to detect a driver's blood alcohol levels - but to work it would need to distinguish the driver's breath from any inebriated passengers.
The second is an infrared touch sensor to detect blood alcohol level through skin that could be built into a steering wheel or start button.
The $1.2 trillion piece of legislation states that 'advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology must be standard equipment in all new passenger motor vehicles,' and that vehicles should be able to 'prevent or limit' operation if a driver is impaired.
It calls for a window of five to six years for the new standard to go into effect.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
These are the Assistant Democrats that made all of this possible
Dan Sullivan (R-AK) Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) Mike Crapo (R-ID) Roy Blunt (R-MO) Richard Burr (R-NC) Deb Fischer (R-NE) Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Rob Portman (R-OH) Thom Tillis (R-NC) Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Jim Risch (R-ID) Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Bill Cassidy (R-LA) Kevin Cramer (R-ND) Roger Wicker (R-MS) Mitch McConnell (R-KY) John Hoeven (R-ND) Susan Collins (R-ME) Mitt Romney (R-UT)
Plus these Assistant Democrats in the House: Van Drew, Katko, Bacon, YoungAK, Upton, Kinzinger, SmithNJ, Fitzpatrick, Reed, Gabarino, GonzalezOH, McKinley.
They needed GOP help and they got it.
The consumer will pay for this.
This will drive up the price of a new car.
Just like the other government required devices on cars.
Emission controls drove up the cost of new cars as well.
That is who will pay for this new requirement
Just get yer kid to blow the car.
I think we’ll all be on horseback by then the way they are running things. How are they going to force it on horses?
Yup—keep your old clunker for years and years.
They will increase in value if they can run at all.
“Well, I got my new car and then that other one’s my drinking car.”
So we all have to give our cars BJ’s to drive anywhere?
Every bar will have a designated car starter.
;-)
If it saves just one life, then it is worth the extra $$$$$$$$$$$$!(/S)
The technology for this isn’t ready for prime time. It’s glitchy and will strand a lot of sober drivers.
Chauffeur rates in DC gonna sky rocket.
Out of control government is out of control.
The designated driver is stone cold sober but the car won't start.
How about a self-contained urinalysis tube to “blow” into? No? Is no one responsible for anything?
Mitch is thrilled. There was money for Kentucky. That’s
all he cared about.
Or you can blow something else!
In the future you’ll have to have a chip implant in you which will act as your key to the rest of the world. No chip, no nothing. The mark of the beast will be a computer chip under the skin in your arm.
Making you pay for an alcohol tester is insult to injury.
The State says you are guilty until the machine says you are innocent.
One more expense, one more thing to break, and one more thing to leave you stranded when it does break.
This is intolerable government.
Or kids will hang around the parking lot who will fellate the car for a price.
At the nicer establishments. :)
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