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Congress approves alcohol monitors in ALL new cars to stop drunk driving in Biden's new $1.2T in infrastructure package
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 9 November 2021 | KATELYN CARALLE

Posted on 11/09/2021 2:50:29 PM PST by Mount Athos

Congress is requiring in its $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that automakers install monitoring systems in their cars to stop drivers from operating their vehicles while intoxicated.

Monitoring systems to stop drunk drivers would roll out in all new vehicles as early as 2026, according to the new legislation.

Some convicted drunk drivers already have to use breathalyzer devices attached to their vehicles' ignition interlock. By blowing into a tube, the system will disable the vehicle if the individual's blood alcohol level is above the legal threshold.

The Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety (DADSS) program is a public-private partnership partially funded by the government and is one of the groups currently working on two separate alcohol detection systems that would require no action from the driver.

The first is a sensor testing the air within the car to detect a driver's blood alcohol levels - but to work it would need to distinguish the driver's breath from any inebriated passengers.

The second is an infrared touch sensor to detect blood alcohol level through skin that could be built into a steering wheel or start button.

The $1.2 trillion piece of legislation states that 'advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology must be standard equipment in all new passenger motor vehicles,' and that vehicles should be able to 'prevent or limit' operation if a driver is impaired.

It calls for a window of five to six years for the new standard to go into effect.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 4yourowngood; alcohol; alcoholmonitor; automotive; bigbrother; biggie; billcassidy; bloodalcohol; cars; collectivepunishment; congress; dadss; inflation; lindseygraham; mandates; megaporkulus; mitchmcconnell; monitoring; outofcontrol; robportman; whatcouldgowrong
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To: Mount Athos

These are the Assistant Democrats that made all of this possible

Dan Sullivan (R-AK) Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) Mike Crapo (R-ID) Roy Blunt (R-MO) Richard Burr (R-NC) Deb Fischer (R-NE) Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Rob Portman (R-OH) Thom Tillis (R-NC) Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Jim Risch (R-ID) Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Bill Cassidy (R-LA) Kevin Cramer (R-ND) Roger Wicker (R-MS) Mitch McConnell (R-KY) John Hoeven (R-ND) Susan Collins (R-ME) Mitt Romney (R-UT)

Plus these Assistant Democrats in the House: Van Drew, Katko, Bacon, YoungAK, Upton, Kinzinger, SmithNJ, Fitzpatrick, Reed, Gabarino, GonzalezOH, McKinley.

They needed GOP help and they got it.


21 posted on 11/09/2021 3:06:09 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: hoe_cake

The consumer will pay for this.
This will drive up the price of a new car.
Just like the other government required devices on cars.
Emission controls drove up the cost of new cars as well.
That is who will pay for this new requirement


22 posted on 11/09/2021 3:07:56 PM PST by coincheck (Salvation is for today, not tomorrow, you might not make it that far.....)
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To: Mount Athos

Just get yer kid to blow the car.


23 posted on 11/09/2021 3:09:02 PM PST by TigersEye (Resistance is not futile!)
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To: Mount Athos

I think we’ll all be on horseback by then the way they are running things. How are they going to force it on horses?


24 posted on 11/09/2021 3:09:38 PM PST by Dogbert41 ("Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled" (Matthew 5:6).)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Yup—keep your old clunker for years and years.

They will increase in value if they can run at all.


25 posted on 11/09/2021 3:10:05 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

“Well, I got my new car and then that other one’s my drinking car.”


26 posted on 11/09/2021 3:10:41 PM PST by Do_Tar (Do I really need a /joke?)
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To: databoss

So we all have to give our cars BJ’s to drive anywhere?


27 posted on 11/09/2021 3:10:50 PM PST by Trumplican ( )
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To: TigersEye

Every bar will have a designated car starter.

;-)


28 posted on 11/09/2021 3:10:59 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Mount Athos

If it saves just one life, then it is worth the extra $$$$$$$$$$$$!(/S)


29 posted on 11/09/2021 3:11:48 PM PST by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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To: Mount Athos

The technology for this isn’t ready for prime time. It’s glitchy and will strand a lot of sober drivers.


30 posted on 11/09/2021 3:12:02 PM PST by Veggie Todd (Let's go, Brandon!)
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To: Mount Athos

Chauffeur rates in DC gonna sky rocket.


31 posted on 11/09/2021 3:12:54 PM PST by Donnafrflorida (Thru Him all things are possible.)
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To: Mount Athos

Out of control government is out of control.


32 posted on 11/09/2021 3:13:19 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Mount Athos
but to work it would need to distinguish the driver's breath from any inebriated passengers.

The designated driver is stone cold sober but the car won't start.

33 posted on 11/09/2021 3:13:33 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Mount Athos

How about a self-contained urinalysis tube to “blow” into? No? Is no one responsible for anything?


34 posted on 11/09/2021 3:13:43 PM PST by Afterguard (Deplorable me! )
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To: Mount Athos

Mitch is thrilled. There was money for Kentucky. That’s
all he cared about.


35 posted on 11/09/2021 3:14:22 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Democrats, fixing things that haven't been broken, so they don't work, for over 197 years.)
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To: Trumplican
So we all have to give our cars BJ’s to drive anywhere?

Or you can blow something else!


36 posted on 11/09/2021 3:14:35 PM PST by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: Mount Athos

In the future you’ll have to have a chip implant in you which will act as your key to the rest of the world. No chip, no nothing. The mark of the beast will be a computer chip under the skin in your arm.


37 posted on 11/09/2021 3:15:00 PM PST by The Louiswu (Peace to you and may God Bless you all)
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To: Mount Athos

Making you pay for an alcohol tester is insult to injury.
The State says you are guilty until the machine says you are innocent.

One more expense, one more thing to break, and one more thing to leave you stranded when it does break.


38 posted on 11/09/2021 3:16:07 PM PST by PTBAA
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To: Mount Athos

This is intolerable government.


39 posted on 11/09/2021 3:16:15 PM PST by precisionshootist
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To: cgbg

Or kids will hang around the parking lot who will fellate the car for a price.
At the nicer establishments. :)


40 posted on 11/09/2021 3:17:01 PM PST by TigersEye (Resistance is not futile!)
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