if none else, this type of thing is where i get scared of the car automatically calling the cops on the driver.

a poor decision that a few people make.

Won’t someone think of the drunks?

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

About 1/3 of all traffic deaths are alcohol related, and it’s estimated that alcohol related crashes more than $120 billion in damages. I’m not saying I’m for mandatory breathalyzer tech, but if the cost was trivial and the accuracy were 100% it would be hard to argue against it.

People exhale into these sensors. The air from your lungs when you exhale is lower in O2 and higher in both CO2 and moisture than atmospheric air.

The fan idea wouldn’t work, because the system would be looking at an ethanol to carbon dioxide ratio, and the fan wouldn’t be generating any CO2. The air duster probably wouldn’t work either because the system could be set to look for the amount of expected CO2 in a human exhalation, and of the few air dusters that…

if none else, this type of thing is where i get scared of the car automatically calling the cops on the driver. If i pick my son up from a bar, then get nailed becuase his good time failed a test on the sensor while i am stone sober?

So do to some indiscretions in my younger years I had the displeasure of having an interlock device in my car about a decade ago. Not looking for sympathy, I did the crime and paid the price, but unless there has been a sea change in breathalyzer technology these things are a MAJOR pain in the ass. You have to hum at…

The problem being drunk passengers wafting booze breath all over the cabin as well, the detector would have to be on the seat belt or something and even then could be prone to false positives based on a ton of factors including hand sanitizer. There are a lot more factors to overcome before this is used as a…

Here’s an idea: Decline to buy cars which lack steering wheels.

A yardstick?

Which is really just a branded golf ball in a different package.

Tesla-branded panel gap alignment gauge was a close second.

Company pollutes large area then brags to investors about increase in respirator sales, rinse repeat.

“probably one of the most successful items in the Tesla Shop.”

I was born in NC and grew up in GA, and it just blows my mind. Nearly a decade ago, I went to a bachelor party at a mansion in SC that was of course on Secession Drive (groom’s uncle owned the place). It was just a suburban McMansion but bigger. More bedrooms. More bathrooms. Bigger kitchen. But it was just a bigger…

They’re going to need that fucking chapel room because whoever buys this is going to burn in hell.

Who cares? Front-engined Porsches aren’t real Porsches.