Every one of these “Solutions” is going to add cost to already sky high vehicle prices- period. No way around that. Seatbelt interlocks were tried before in America, in the 1974 model year. They were instantly hated and legislation was passed to allow them to be removed for the next model year, which was done. We also…

Ban cell phones because people are more interested in the phone than the cars when crossing the street.

Yep, shit like this is how even the most vile Republicans get elected. 

Every so often I wonder why Kinja exists, and then hot take comments like the ones on this article remind me that Kinja exists for the hot takes.

I used to think of myself as a pretty progressive person, but lately the stuff I’ve been reading on here (and other places, of course) has really made me rethink that. 

Of course I remember CD players and surely costs will come down. However, I’m not the one who wrote an article with made up numbers about the current costs of things to justify a point of view. 

I don’t trust the government any farther than I can throw it, and over the last 20+ years, it hasn’t given me any reason to. The people who run our country are shitty human dumpster fires. They can’t wake pu in the morning without finding something new to politicize and turn into a culture war.  They can’t even keep…

I really hate these arguments that some percentage of the population is irresponsible, so the entire population must live under heavy restrictions.

I worked at a DMV sometime ago and remember interlocks being expensive for DUI offenders. Looks like I wasn’t wrong. It is about $100 to install plus other $100/month to monitor plus all the other fun fees to reinstate. Oh and don’t forget the SR-22. For the everyday motorist, I don’t see this going into the millions…

If 45% is attributed to those things, is the other 55% attributed to Distracted Driving, meaning driving while looking at a screen, be it a phone, tablet or laptop......

Agreed. And honestly, while inconvenient, I wouldn’t care about the built-in breathalyzer (I don’t drink). But you know what would be easier to implement? Upping the consequences for drunk driving. You drive over the limit, you lose your license. Period, end of discussion. You get in a wreck while you’re drunk and…

As someone that does wear a seatbelt 100% of the time, “buckle up to start” IMO is absolutely fine in concept. But I’d be very worried about what happens if the sensor fails (and it will fail). Having to get a tow to the dealer because the car thinks you’re not wearing a seatbelt seems incredibly plausible and also…

Jalopnik: We hate cars and so should you

How to never sell another new car in one easy step:

You’re downplaying how these devices work here, it’s significantly more complicated than that 

I’ll go finish the article in a second, but the breathalyzer part has some egregious errors in it, as a person that used to run a service center for these devices.

“NHTSA has all but given up on making American drivers slow down.”

Poor Jalopnik. https://jalopnik.com/this-is-the-best-takedown-of-the-speed-kills-myth-you-1302382244

That’s a lot of words to say personable responsibility (dangerous to say those words out loud). Americans treat a driver’s license as a right, not a privilege. And our licensing system is structured as such. Yes, America is unique in that our infrastructure relies heavily on personal transportation. That doesn’t mean…

The system that will become mandatory on new cars in 2022 uses a forward-facing camera mounted on the car and the vehicle’s satellite navigation system to identify the speed limit and, if the car is exceeding it, to restrict the fuel flowing to the engine until the vehicle is at the limit speed.