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3/25/2013 5:11:24 PM
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Would you be okay with mandatory a Breathalyzer in every car?
Before you start your car each time you have to submit to an automated breathalyzer. If it detects alcohol in your breath your car will not start.
A car is a very dangerous mult-ton object capable of traveling upwards of 100 miles per hour. The energy transferred in a collision is immense. Ten Thousand people were killed last year in car crashes with drunk drivers.
We already put breathalyzers on some cars owned by frequent drunk drivers, but why not extend it to every and make it a mandatory requirement like seat belts and air bags. It is very much a safety feature and will end up saving lives.
It would be a retroactive law, so every vehicle in American will be required to install one of these safety features. Of course it would not be cheap, but the government could issue a voucher for all but 50 dollars of the cost of the installation.
Driving is a privileged, a very dangerous one, shouldn't we take all the steps to make it even safer?
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3 RepliesI do not like the trend of "collective presumption of guilt due to the illegal actions of others in the past" that appears to be the current method or thought behind "preventing tragedies". I will not be held accountable or responsible for the criminal or negligent acts of others. Even if they are the same color as I, same age, same sex, and used the same tools to commit their crimes. They are responsible for their own actions, their own choices and their misdeeds. To label me as "a potential offender" because I have something in common with that person, is a cheap and easy way out and it almost "excuses" those who commit crimes by blaming their tool, their gender, their skin color, their income level, their parents, or anything other than them and their own free will.
