This is how law enforcement is going to diagnose people with sleep apnea.
Make everyone a criminal and you control everyone.
Sure, this is true if you're driving in a NASCAR 500 race. Most of the driving people in the US do is simple stop and go, medium speed driving or the mindless cruising of interstate highways where sharp reflexes are by design unneeded. The only real danger tired drivers pose on the interstate highway is falling asleep.
Another problem invented by the fevered, utopian mind of a cloistered do-gooder politician. It won't end until we're all tied to our beds at home, force-fed measured amounts of organic vegetables, with an armed guard outside our door to keep the bad guys out and us in. Then we'll all be perfectly safe. Kind of like the scenario in "I, Robot".
Another way to make revenue. Find another excuse to take away your drivers license and catch you driving to your job later w/o it to get even more revenue.
Consider your driver license the new eminent domain
Motoring lobbyists argue that the car is replacing the cigarette as the government's main tax crop
See, we told you so ping.
>>Pretty soon, we'll all be pedestrians, broke, or in prison.<<
Or motorcycle riders...
But I tend to agree. Over hear in the burbs of Seattle, I was talking with people in a neighborhood where they have separate water meters for outside water and inside water. And the outside water is MORE EXPENSIVE. And they complained of an $800 water bill for one month just to water the lawn. Some of them are running hoses to their inside sinks.
But that is not the part that really hurts. Would you believe that, in an area where we get lots of rain followed by weeks of no rain, they are limited to a maximum of two rain barrels on their property. That's right, the city enforces how much of the God given rain that falls on their property they can save for use on their property.
The city is trying to ACTIVELY control the water table, and that is their excuse.
The US is becoming more and more like the Soviet Union described to me in grade school in the early 1960's. Actually, MORE SO!
Let me give a real simple reason why this is not reasonable:
Can you imagind strictly enforced speed limits in a place where it was not technically nor economically feasable to have speedometers on cars. Imagine the stress of always "wondering" if you are speeding.
This is stupid and Orwellian, regardless of it's perceived positive results.
Great. One more thing they can measure that you cannot. What if you are simply uncoordinated?
I can't remember which movie it was but I seem to recall a policeman pulling over a motorist and giving him a sobriety test. He says "OK grab your left foot in your right hand and hop over here OK now do some back flips OK etc..."
One of the signs of a police state is that everyone breaks the law everyday in some way. There are so many laws covering the minutiae of behavior that it is impossible not to break the law and the penalties are substantial (Gulag, reeducation camp ?). So everyone is in fear of the state and its capricious nature because they can be arrested "legally" at any time.