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Originally Posted by Mr. iNCREDIBLE
Tech exists that requires a breath test before the vehicle will start, the problem is that you have have repeat offenses of DUI in order to be ordered to have it on your vehicle. .
requiring it to be installed on all vehicles would be a violation of our civil rights (I say that with the upmost distain because so many other rights are violated regularly that don't result in the death of innocent people).
what IMO would be a start is technology that won't allow a vehicle to enter a freeway going the wrong way, in this case it appears she got on an off ramp, how hard would it be to install those tire puncture systems on all off ramps you know the ones that some "exit only" driveways have?
perhaps in conduction with camera that get activated if someone enters the wrong way and even a bollard that raises and blocks the path of drive (though that could create a problem for the exiting people).
it's obvious that completely stopping idiots like this is to a point beyond reality, like anything if someone is set on doing it their isn't much you can do to stop them.
I was hit by a DUI in 1991, I was lucky to survive, my first wife was killed by a DUI 17 days after our wedding, and 21 days after she graduated from college in 2001..
I've lost 3 cousins and 2 friends to DUIs as well.
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hey, so just an FYI, in Arizona if you are convicted of a DUI (any level, occurrence) you are required to have an Interlock device installed in your vehicle before you are allowed to legally drive again. The Interlock device requires you to blow any time you start the vehicle and also randomly tests you thru the drive. So it must not infringe there... driving is a privilege, not a right. And yes, that interlock device is the worst thing ever!
Also, the other problem that exists is that there is plenty of technology/vehicles with accident prevention built in, but for the same reason these Technologies will never be a mandate is precisely what your first paragraph mentions.. civil rights.. or i'm sure some constitutional rights as well as takes away that 'freedom' we all feel when driving.
ps. Your last paragraph made feel horrible for you!! I couldn't even imagine what that musta been like.