Posted on 09/20/2022 5:03:58 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
DETROIT (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board is recommending that all new vehicles in the U.S. be equipped with blood alcohol monitoring systems that can stop an intoxicated person from driving.
The recommendation, if enacted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, could reduce the number of alcohol-related crashes, one of the biggest causes of highway deaths in the U.S.
The new push to make roads safer was included in a report released Tuesday about a horrific crash last year in which a drunk driver collided head-on with another vehicle near Fresno, California, killing both adult drivers and seven children.
NHTSA said this week that roadway deaths in the U.S. are at crisis levels. Nearly 43,000 people were killed last year, the greatest number in 16 years, as Americans returned to roads after pandemic stay-at-home orders.
Early estimates show fatalities rising again through the first half of this year, but they declined from April through June, which authorities are hoping is a trend.
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One more device to fail and even cause someone’s life. I wouldn’t want to be stuck in a car in sub-freezing temperatures because a chip had fried.
NTSB and FHA have wanted to make every driver guilty until proven innocent for over a decade.
This 5hit is MADDening!
This new brain gas of the NTSB would be like them back in 1969 ordering all Americans to purchase Volkswagens because a drunk Senator took a drive one night. Just think of how many lives it would have saved since /sarcasm.
They'll just attach it as an amendment to an aid bill for Ukraine and it will sail right through :-)
Woman was wise beyond words. Too bad she was a devout atheist.
Big Brother never rests. He wants absolute control over every aspect of your life every minute of every day. Our government has become as evil as any other on the planet. It will only get worse, because there is no satisfying the controller’s instinct to enslave his fellow man. None of this is ultimately going to end well for anyone.
The evil bastards will simply reply that "driving is a privilege, not a right", one of the biggest and most widely accepted lie of the police state that is even accepted by many if not most here on FR. It is sad to me how easily people will give up even their most basic rights such as the common law right of travel.
No. It always starts as being 'voluntary', like seatbelts. Then it slowly morphs into being mandatory. Just say No. Always say No when the police state demands your rights. Tell the state to piss off and stick to those few things enumerated in Article 1 §8. That is a really short list of what they have any business at all meddling in.
I can get on this bandwagon.
I'm impressed. How many horsepower? (LOL)
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