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If it's longer then 6 months, give it as long as you think we'll need. 2 years? 5 years?
If we can figure out a way to make these things cheap (assuming of course they are in fact expensive in the first place), I think it would be a great solution.
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I just don't see any way that it would be cheap or any way that it wouldn't take forever to accomplish.
The price and effort required would be absolutely insane.
Good idea in theory bu t totally impossible in the real world.
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What happens if your engine malfunctions? What happens if your tires malfunction, or your brakes, or your power steering........ try to think of it as just another part to the car.
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These things are all necessary for the car to actually run. The breathalyzer is an extra part that would use new technology and for most people is an added part that really shouldn't be there anyways.
A lot easier to deal with a engine breaking down because you failed to maintain it or own a '76 Gremlin than it is to be stuck in -40 weather because Johnny Drunk can't stop driving after hitting up the peelers and you just want to get home but the breathalyzer says you have an Blood Alchol level of 2.9.
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Don't like this argument. It's not guilty until proven innocent, it's about prevention. Why do people wear condoms? Or seatbelts? It's called safety, not 'guilty until proven innocent'.
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People aren't forced to wear condoms when having sex, people aren't forced to wear seatbelts to start their car. Everyone who has sex is at risk without a condom, everyone without a seatbelt who drives is at risk, a minority (small minority really) are at/a risk without a breathalyzer. The amount of times that a car is operated by a drunk person in NA has to be in the .000000000000001% (or less) range. We really need to force people to have this device in their cars for that amount of risk?
People who are sober don't need to use a breathalyzer, it isn't preventing anything in those cases.