Posted on 03/12/2011 6:53:21 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., is the lead player in a legislative effort, already endorsed by a handful of other senators, that would spend $60 million to develop a program that would charge consumers for the costs of installing drunk-driving interlock devices in vehicles.
The proposal, S.510, was introduced this week in the U.S. Senate by Udall, who was joined by Sens. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Al Franken, D-Minn., Amy Klobuchar D-Minn., West John D. Rockefeller, D-W.Va., Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.
The legislation actually doesn't call for the technology to be installed in every vehicle but urges "more widespread deployment of in-vehicle technology to prevent alcohol-impaired driving." The device already is ordered into use sometimes by courts addressing cases of drunk drivers who offend repeatedly.
The proposal delivers $12 million to promoters of the program in each of five years for what the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration calls the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety.
The "fact sheet" posted by the federal agency describes the interest in "technologies that will quickly and accurately measure a driver's blood alcohol concentration (BAC) in a non-invasive manner. If the system detects that a driver is drunk, the vehicle will be disabled from being driven."
It has been suggested that a tissue spectrometry program, a touch-based approach in which sensors would measure the level of alcohol in tissue, might be used. Or the program might use the infrared light spectrum to "detect alcohol concentration in the driver's exhaled breath."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
It’s not a very good disguise.
Because even passengers should never talk on a cell when they're in a car. Idiots.
In-vehicle alcohol testing now, Big Mac/Whopper/Footlong/Double/Triple sandwich and fries/onion rings/soda monitoring next.
They will have to pry my favorite sandwich, “the big guy” from my cold dead fingers with my vehicle keys. Here it is by the way as a stock clip:
http://us.fotolia.com/p/201245571
Wow, go figure. The neo-statist fascist party (also known as Democrats), who's only goal is to grind their boot-heel in the face of humanity -- forever -- all line up to set up yet another populace-monitoring program. I see only one Republican in that list.
Sure, the program is not-universally-mandatory now. But, trust this, it will be. It discourages people from driving, and the goal of the DemonCrap party is to get us out of our cars.
And to treat us like cattle.
Every single day, they come up with another reminder why all DemonCraps must be removed from the face of this planet.
It would never register anything with me. I’ve never taken to drinking and never touch the stuff. I can’t stand coffee either but love the aroma.
I think Stevie Wonder does.
Disguise? WHAT disguise?
That was discarded in 2008.
Unbelievable. The idiots could not be bothered to pass a budget last year, but they have time for this idiocy. These people are beyond moronic.
Reminds me of a plack a friend has on his office desk “I was raised to believe in killing communist i see no reason to change now”.
How about some legislation that a person has to be sane and responsible in order to vote for President? Obviously, this is need more desperately.
Utopia looks like Moscow.
With the workers shivering in their modest apartments, commuting via the underground, and the wide boulevards populated only by the limousines of the apparatchniks.
Read it again. One co-sponsor is a “Republican.”
You first Senator!, Including your wife’ car.
I wonder what would happen if somebody farted into the device.
I didn’t see your sandwich, but I did see a number of pictures of a nice young woman in a red dress.
OK as long as they drug test all welfare recipients and their kids. Positive and no check.
OK as long as they drug test all welfare recipients and their kids. Positive and no check.
OK as long as they drug test all welfare recipients and their kids. Positive and no check.
Could you repeat that, please?
I don’t drink; so what do I win? /sarc
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