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Implant it in the butt of drunk drivers as part of their sentence. Require new cars sold in US to have sensors under drivers seat that shut them down if said chip sits there. Parole agents verify chip is still there periodically. In less time than we can grow new drivers to replace the ones they were killing, the drunks will only be able to drive old beaters, easily spotted by cops. The technology should work. It would increase the price of new cars and add one more potential malfunction to them, but in time it would prevent the costs caused by current repeat drunk drivers, which are not inconsequential. I'd want real automotive engineers to carefully evaluate the tech for practicality and for difficulty to bypass. I'd also want a good cost-benefit analysis done before legislating it.

I think it could work , but maybe I'm overlooking something. Of course I may be biased in favor of my concept by having had my car totaled by a driver's 2nd DUI conviction, with his 3rd coming within six months later. I wasn't hurt. But had I not been paying enough attention to modify our crash he'd have been spared his third by a vehicular manslaughter conviction. It shouldn't take that much to keep such off the road. Going through the legal system to enforce publicly passed legislation takes care of personal liberty concerns and they could also be judicially unchipped if lawmakers could find some appropriate criteria. We can't seem to put enough brains in the drunks to keep them from driving, much less from drinking. Maybe we can put the needed brains in our cars instead. I know some current plans prevent drunks from driving specific cars, but I don't want them driving any cars. Retrofitting the the whole fleet isn't reasonable although a court might mandate his family's vehicles be so equipped. But, unless Obama turns us into the next Cuba for classic cars normal fleet attrition would empower my plan.