Car Breathalyzers For Everyone

[Dougstermd]

Doesn't look like that will work. 4' 6" seems to be the limit..."extremely small stature."

so vince can get an exemption:shrug:

 

[ocean733]

I'd like to see someone bypass the breathalyzer just to see if it can be done.

Couldn't you get in trouble if they found out that you were tampering with it?

 

[MMDad]

I'd like to see someone bypass the breathalyzer just to see if it can be done.

Couldn't you get in trouble if they found out that you were tampering with it?

It can be done.

If you tamper and get caught, you usually lose your driving privilige for a long time, pay a large fine, and go to jail.

 

[RoseRed]

It can be done.

If you tamper and get caught, you usually lose your driving privilige for a long time, pay a large fine, and go to jail.

But what if you don't have a DUI/DWI conviction against you?

 

[aps45819]

Buy an older car. Problem solved!

It would have to be very old to be pre-airbag. New cars have 'smart' airbags that sense your weight and have multi stage depolyment

 

[aps45819]

But what if you don't have a DUI/DWI conviction against you?

It would be about like disabling your airbag. Who would know till you wrecked?

 

[RoseRed]

It would be about like disabling your airbag. Who would know till you wrecked?

Someone should alert Congress.

 

[MMDad]

But what if you don't have a DUI/DWI conviction against you?

Why would you have one if you didn't? (Now, not if idiot tommy gets his way.)

 

[RoseRed]

Why would you have one if you didn't? (Now, not if idiot tommy gets his way.)

That's my point. If they were mandatory and you don't drink and bypass it, should you get into trouble for doing so?

 

[cwo_ghwebb]

there is no presumption of guilt, its a safety interlock. If you have a brake light out, your car shouldn't start, it's a safety interlock. in case you didn't know, drunk driving is already against the law. with this system, If you are drunk your car wont start, if you are not drunk, you drive. So we just trample on the rights of the vast majority who don't drive while drunk.

I can't see why anyone who doesn't drink and drive would care. especially since this pie in the sky idea will never fly. Don't let anything mechanical go wrong with my car, because it won't start, due to government mandated 'safety interlocks'.

Some like to trust those folks we elected and say the lawmakers stoopid ideas will never fly. Someone must disagree, already there are radio ads out there notifying citizens this is what our politicians intend to enact, under very heavy lobbying pressure by some folks who under the guise of concerned mothers, want prohibition to return. Very politically correct ad, and the implications were quite explicit.

No, this stoopid idea will never fly in America.

 

[MMDad]

That's my point. If they were mandatory and you don't drink and bypass it, should you get into trouble for doing so?

If it was mandatory, there would have to be a penalty for bypassing it. There wouldn't be any point otherwise.

 

[ocean733]

If it was mandatory, there would have to be a penalty for bypassing it. There wouldn't be any point otherwise.

Right. But how would they know that you bypassed it (except for car inspections)?

 

[MMDad]

Right. But how would they know that you bypassed it (except for car inspections)?

Get in a crash, get pulled over, etc.

It'd probably be monitored by the OBD, so you'd get a fault code that would be noticed during emissions inspections.