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If they even get this to exist (legislating it doesn’t make the technology to do it magically exist) I can’t wait to see the shitstorm the first time someone dies or gets hurt because a false lockout prevents them from using their vehicle in a genuine emergency. 

My interlock absolutely picked up mouthwash.

Delivery driver here.  I’d have to blow into it like 100 times a day.

Nowhere in the law, or the article, does it even intimate that something such as this would be the case.

I just cannot think of a scenario in which any of this tech works well enough to be seamless (or even functional and effective) in three years. That’s an incredibly short timeframe to develop, test, and integrate this technology into new cars. Sure. I can’t wait for this glitchy tech to leave me stranded, stone-cold…

It’s not the alcohol lobby that wants drunk drivers treated with kid gloves, it’s the restaurant lobby. When people drink less because they know they’ll be driving later, it’s at a restaurant, not at home.

also, if you live in a cold climate the interlock would drain the battery attempting to stay at a specific operating temperature 24hrs a day. My ex-wife had one and it was miserable trying to keep the car running for her, I think it ruined a battery every month during the winter. I eventually installed an onboard…

So they are basically mass producing newly minted republicans , if this dumbass idea ever goes into effect. 

Oh good. I’m sure if it needs to be replaced it’ll be cheap and easy to get to, but of course that won’t be necessary because it won’t ever malfunction and delay you let alone fail and strand you entirely. Maybe they can integrate it with driver assist so if it detects anything it thinks is alcohol it can just pull…

BUT auto manufactures are not going to want to deal with customers not buying new cars b/c they don’t want to deal with this (in addition to likely just wanting less gvmt mandates in general).

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.

Sure, I understand all that, I just don’t understand “they don’t pick up mouth wash at all.”

Have to calibrate it monthly, too...   $$

I don’t see the government ever mandating this over 10k drunk driving deaths/year. We’ve got >4x more gun deaths per year and the government (mainly R’s) really goes out of their way to ignore the problem.

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

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…

Is it 100% guaranteed to only detect alcohol and nothing else? Like if someone spits out mouth wash, walks outside, and their car won’t start. 

I get the reasoning for having something like this. Absolutely 100% get it.

Is the idea that this is on all the time and must be used every time you start your car, or is this a replacement for the in-car breathalyzers they give to people with DUIs?