I begrudgingly accept your points, right up until the one at which I need to lick something twenty five times every week. Ick.

I don’t disagree that it’s a significant factor in crashes, but crashes make up a very small portion of all hours/miles/any other measure in which vehicles participate. This is “punishing” the class for the one kid that was acting up.

Its the natural evolution of doing absolutely jack shit when it comes to developing public transport.

Wait until it won’t allow your car to start because you are at a filling station and ethanol fuel vapors are in the air.

While spacers are garbage it doesn’t need to be a spacer to cause extra wear. People change stance with terrible wheel offsets also.

Typical politics.....Legislate, but then leave it to the private sector to figure it out.  They throw random dates out and then as it gets closer, it turns into a hurry up offense that rarely comes up with a decent solution.  Then re-legislate.

if this could be integrated seamlessly into the normal use of your car, doesn’t need calibration, and will not auto-alert authorities to failed tests.... bring it. i have no problem with my car not starting if alcohol is detected, but maybe we don’t have to get me charged with DUI after using hand sanitizer in my…

Well the spacer is going to offset the wheel from where it normally sits, I don’t see the spacer it self failing since usually they are solid metal but they change the geometry and now there is more weight on a different component then normal, likely a bearing.

This is the natural evolution of our society’s constant demonization of drinking and driving. We treat it as an ever-present evil that must be snuffed out at all costs, rather a poor decision that a few people make.

You can’t legislate technology into existence. What happens when the sensor gets dirty? Can it measure temperature, gas composition, velocity? What stops the presumed impaired driver from using a can of duster gas or a battery powered fan to blow cabin air across it? How does it handle the whole inside of the car…

This is a really long way to say, “new car sales will soon end.”

Saw in another thread that it could’ve been a wheel spacer causing fatigue on the bearing, and that’s where the failure occurred

I got the impression that it’s going to be federally mandated standard equipment, like ABS and a backup camera. I too am annoyed that the crimes of a few now force extra work on the many. This will be especially cumbersome if the driver is wearing a mask, for example a rideshare driver, or just an ordinary person who…

Please don’t bring that piece of trash out of the grays.

As someone who teaches EFI systems and diag, I can tell you that a good chunk of my job is explaining how utterly shit the US fuel infrastructure really is.

So Europe has better health care, education, food, coca cola, public transpiration, AND diesel fuel? We really need to step it up, America!  

Right or wrong, the reason people want 500 range EVs is to offset the excessive charging times. Selling people something that doesn’t meet their needs (whether they be realistic or not) is practically impossible, so you’re left with two choices if you want to make sales: you change nothing and convince them the…

2nd Gear: the results summary is somewhat incorrectly described. This is not really an outcome along the party lines. If 50% of Democrats would consider, that’s still a 50/50 toss up.

Or a career with the police for much longer.

“I cannot sir. I know you’re aware of our body camera policy. You know I cannot turn off this body camera,” the officer says. “I have taken an oath to uphold the law.”