NTSB wants all new vehicles to check drivers for alcohol use

The Associated Press ^ | September 20, 2022 | By TOM KRISHER

[jonrick46]

One more device to fail and even cause someone’s life. I wouldn’t want to be stuck in a car in sub-freezing temperatures because a chip had fried.

[lightman]

NTSB and FHA have wanted to make every driver guilty until proven innocent for over a decade.

This 5hit is MADDening!

[cva66snipe]

I want every House and Senate member to undergo BAT and FST before any votes. I want a BAT machine installed at the Speaker Podium, on the gavel, and a check of all nasal passages before votes. I want a Cognitive Abilities Test done on the one they call president of the USA. Since were all assumed by our government to be suspects now.

This new brain gas of the NTSB would be like them back in 1969 ordering all Americans to purchase Volkswagens because a drunk Senator took a drive one night. Just think of how many lives it would have saved since /sarcasm.

[TheCipher]

Unable to do that for the seat belt scheme, won’t work for this.

They'll just attach it as an amendment to an aid bill for Ukraine and it will sail right through :-)

[Spacetrucker]

Woman was wise beyond words. Too bad she was a devout atheist.

[zeugma]

Big Brother never rests. He wants absolute control over every aspect of your life every minute of every day. Our government has become as evil as any other on the planet. It will only get worse, because there is no satisfying the controller’s instinct to enslave his fellow man. None of this is ultimately going to end well for anyone.

[zeugma]

4th amendment. Non-starter.

The evil bastards will simply reply that "driving is a privilege, not a right", one of the biggest and most widely accepted lie of the police state that is even accepted by many if not most here on FR. It is sad to me how easily people will give up even their most basic rights such as the common law right of travel.

[zeugma]

Having worked in a big city ER for years...and having has an 18 year old niece killed by a drunk driver...I could support a device like that on a *voluntary* basis. The incentive,perhaps,could be big discounts on insurance.

No. It always starts as being 'voluntary', like seatbelts. Then it slowly morphs into being mandatory. Just say No. Always say No when the police state demands your rights. Tell the state to piss off and stick to those few things enumerated in Article 1 §8. That is a really short list of what they have any business at all meddling in.

Article I, §8

[zeugma]

I’m OK with this, in return for having ALL those in elected office or a federal job, at any level, punching in and punching out each and every day (posted online so we can all see it), and being recorded (audio and video) every hour they are supposed to be working. Also, random drug and alcohol tests of all federal employees, with automatic dismissal and loss of any claim on a pension for any abnormal test that is confirmed. Further, mandatory prison time and forfeiture of 80% of wealth for any insider trading by public office holders.

I can get on this bandwagon.

[zeugma]

Glad both my vehicles are 1070’s models.

I'm impressed. How many horsepower? (LOL)