Lots of bad drivers out there. They should make it more difficult for people to get their license, specifically the road test itself. Too many people dont realize what a powerful weapon a car can be if driven poorly.
That was very hard to watch. it's the innocent people (children) that get me...please do not drink and drive.
There is new technology that may be placed in cars that can sense if the driver is drunk, through the finger tips or something, and the vehicle will not start.
Sort of like the current add ons where you blow into a device to start the car but integrated into the car and only require the effort to start the car normally.
What do you about making this standard in vehicles at some point, like air bags?
A lot of people would get stranded late at night at bars but it would save lives.
Thoughts?
What if you just rinsed your mouth with listerine?
with the fingertips - what if it's too cold & your fingers won't give a reading. Then you're stranded. These are what if's, but I could see this being more of an annoyance.
If the Government was serious about stopping drinking and driving all cars would be required to come with breathalyzers.
Totally serious post, not trolling.
But the people in power are drunks themselves so that won't happen.
screw money wrote:
with the fingertips - what if it's too cold & your fingers won't give a reading. Then you're stranded. These are what if's, but I could see this being more of an annoyance.
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Here is an article about some technolgy Nissan is working on
http://www.automobile.com/nissan-shows-off-new-anti-drunk-driving-technology.html
screw money wrote:
What if you just rinsed your mouth with listerine?
Breathalyzers don't read alcohol directly. When alcohol that you drink is broken down in your body, part of the waste product is exhaled. The machines are looking for the waste product, not for the alcohol istself.
screw money wrote:
What if you just rinsed your mouth with listerine?
Bear of Bad News wrote:
Breathalyzers don't read alcohol directly. When alcohol that you drink is broken down in your body, part of the waste product is exhaled. The machines are looking for the waste product, not for the alcohol istself.
Nevermind. I just looked it up, and apparently I was wrong on this and they do actually measure alcohol directly. I thought I remembered differently from my undergrad chem lab.
You are semi-right. It reads the alcohol that has been absorbed in your blood, something like listerine, doesn't absorb alcohol in your blood. That is just your mouth, not in your lungs. SO it would not affect the breathalyzer results.
Bear of Bad News wrote:
screw money wrote:What if you just rinsed your mouth with listerine?
Bear of Bad News wrote:
Breathalyzers don't read alcohol directly. When alcohol that you drink is broken down in your body, part of the waste product is exhaled. The machines are looking for the waste product, not for the alcohol istself.
Nevermind. I just looked it up, and apparently I was wrong on this and they do actually measure alcohol directly. I thought I remembered differently from my undergrad chem lab.
MikeG wrote:That was very hard to watch. it's the innocent people (children) that get me...please do not drink and drive.
Toally agree but I thought it was going to be about the old TAC. The Athletic Congress. This is a running site so it should be. But it is a place where Pre is mentioned a lot so maybe it was very applicable.
I haven't driven after drinking (same day) for 25 years. This is what I've been missing, with luck (and a clean driving record).
For me part of it is that I'm aware that I have low tolerance. I can't remember how many drinks/hour typically gets you busted, but I can get pretty buzzed off a single beer on an empty stomach, so it's easiest to take a hard line and not second-guess.
Quite likely the single most deadly risk that people take on a regular basis (along with driving while over-fatigued...I HAVE done that, but try extremely hard to avoid it).
Don't try so hard to avoid it and save the brain power for focusing on the road when you're tired. Problem solved.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Z2mf8DtWWd8
Wow, that should be played every year at the Prefontaine Classic.
Driving tired is just as bad or worse than driving drunk. Don't do either.
What's TAC? Obviously seemed to be part of the Commonwealth (English speakers, white, driving on the left side of the road for the most part), but where?
That was a 5 min summary of one week of high school health class