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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
So come up with a version that isn’t easy to disable and works better.
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This is a software problem masquerading as a hardware problem, and the answer is that you
can't unless literally every jurisdiction where that vehicle is sold has it and
doesn't have a fleet version (eg: police and emergency services, etc.). Not every jurisdiction is going to want or even allow that, particularly for safety reasons. You can make it illegal to defeat the interlock in legislation, but that doesn't stop anybody if there's no way to monitor it or detect that it has been defeated.
As an example, something which is pretty much universal in the developed world is compulsory seat-belt use, so we have seatbelt reminder chimes. And yet, because Land Rover sold RRS and RR models to law enforcement in some areas (and also they're used on farms which is private land so seatbelts aren't required), it required them to be able to disable the seatbelt chime in the vehicle's BCM. I'm not six years old, I put my seatbelt on as a force of habit and I don't need something BONG-BONG-BONGing in my ear to remind me every time I start the car. So I coded it out on both of my Range Rovers, and it took maybe 5-10 minutes.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
We’re not talking about smog.
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No, of course not; smog would be a better use of resources, and yet even BC killed AirCare after 20 years because it was an expensive program to run and it was a better use of resources to narrow the program scope and target for the biggest impact, which was heavy-duty diesel vehicles.
If you have an alcohol interlock now, sure, you have to get it checked as conditions of your punishment and that's fine because as a percentage of population, the number that need that service is very low. Now imagine every vehicle in the province requires it to be checked and certified operational... well, you think it's hard to get an appointment to swap your winter tires
now....
A narrow program scope -- requiring those with DUIs to have interlocks and get them inspected annually or whenever -- is not only doable but demonstrably so. Requiring them for everyone is just not ever going to happen.