Drunk Driving Under Welcome Attacks
We have seat belts and air bags.
Why not steering wheels that measure your blood alcohol level so that you cannot drive drunk?
No doubt there were squeals and shrieks galore from both the public and the manufacturers before seat belts and other safety devices. Even today, there are those who believe that their individual "freedoms" are compromised by having to strap on.
Nevertheless, the technology now exists and it is simple and inexpensive to embed sensors in steering wheels that measure one's blood alcohol levels. Anyone who has ever run on a treadmill is familiar with exactly this technology that gives an immediate and accurate reading of heart rate.
Heart rates are hard to come by when you've been struck by a drunk driver.
MADD is correct, as always, to pursue this worthy goal.
They are also correct to lobby against the motor company that employs Keifer Sutherland, no doing 48 days in jail for drunk driving, as their voice and spokesperson.
In Arizona, one enterprising lawman has gone even further. He is launching billboards and website with the photos of drunk drivers. Why not? I think that is perfectly useful and appropriate?
Read that story here.
1 comment:
The first funeral that I attended in this Life, was my Aunt, Uncle, and two neices. Removed by an impaired driver. I tend to hold impaired drivers in low esteem. I concurr with you David, after being struck by an impaired driver, your heartbeat is very difficult to find.
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