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RE: What would you think of making this a required safety feature?
February 21, 2014 at 10:14 am
A neighbor of mine had to get one. The failure bar is set so low that you could fail after swishing with mouthwash. Of course this would be after you really messed up, so it's a crackdown measure. It can be difficult to blow into, although I was able to do it just fine when I was driving him sometimes.
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RE: What would you think of making this a required safety feature?
February 21, 2014 at 10:16 am
My sister had a blow-n-go and it was a pain in the fucking ass.
I would duck down and blow into it for her when she was driving so no one would see it.
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Re: RE: What would you think of making this a required safety feature?
February 21, 2014 at 12:16 pm
(February 21, 2014 at 9:59 am)Esquilax Wrote: (February 21, 2014 at 9:50 am)KUSA Wrote: You assumed that. It's a great idea don't you think? Now run out and get one for your car.
I would, even though I don't drink. :P If they were standard, I wouldn't have had to repaint the door of my car when some drunk asshole scraped the hell out of it, so... hey.
Even though you don't drink some drunk could steal your car and kill a child. Go get one before it is too late!
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RE: What would you think of making this a required safety feature?
February 21, 2014 at 12:18 pm
(February 21, 2014 at 12:16 pm)KUSA Wrote: Even though you don't drink some drunk could steal your car and kill a child. Go get one before it is too late!
Oh, that was the point you were making? 
Is this another person who can't tell the difference between what a gun does, and what a car does?
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RE: What would you think of making this a required safety feature?
February 21, 2014 at 12:23 pm
Guns are a lot easier to steal/operate while drunk than cars.
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RE: What would you think of making this a required safety feature?
February 21, 2014 at 1:17 pm
WOOT! another gun thread.
This 'new safety' sounds like an honest attempt to sabotage gun control advocates who want to cut down on head wounds in political figures (Brady, Giffords, Dwyer, Kennedy I, and Kennedy II.) It could be a move to increase gun sales by adding more complexity to a rather simple killing heat engine and so fool the buyers into thinking they'll be more safe. I wish them well.
It might reduce the 2% (nod to rasetsu's data) but not the majority of firearm deaths in the US as 2 out of 3 of them are suicides. It may be possible that these could be reduced in that someone really drunk or depressed may not remember they need the watch. We'll need data on that. The goal of reducing the 2% which is largely the children of the owners is seen as laudable, but I'd rather see them removed from the gene pool.
The increased system complexity will increase the number of failure modes resulting in a reduced suicide reliability. This is undesired in that the reduced reliability will reduce the number of successful suicides of gun owners. Perhaps, and I so hope, they will reject the design and stick to their older, simpler, tried and true, methods.
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RE: What would you think of making this a required safety feature?
February 21, 2014 at 1:27 pm
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(February 21, 2014 at 9:38 am)KUSA Wrote: (February 21, 2014 at 12:24 am)rasetsu Wrote:
In 2012, 10,322 people died in drunk driving crashes - one every 51 minutes - See more at: http://www.madd.org/drunk-driving/about/...9mP2s.dpuf
There are a lot of other things killing people. Why don't we put a breathalyzer in every vehicle as a safety feature?
There are a lot of other things killing people. Why bother finding a cure for cancer?
I mean, if we can't reduce deaths to zero, any attempt to reduce them to non-zero levels is obviously a waste of time.
I wouldn't mind having a car that couldn't function unless I had a device which enabled it to, actually.
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Re: RE: What would you think of making this a required safety feature?
February 21, 2014 at 2:20 pm
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(February 21, 2014 at 1:27 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: There are a lot of other things killing people. Why bother finding a cure for cancer?
I mean, if we can't reduce deaths to zero, any attempt to reduce them to non-zero levels is obviously a waste of time.
I wouldn't mind having a car that couldn't function unless I had a device which enabled it to, actually.
If you want to lower deaths from cancer then put this technology on a cigarette lighter. That way the wrong person can't light it.
As for your car you can put a breathalizer on it any time you want.
(February 21, 2014 at 12:18 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Is this another person who can't tell the difference between what a gun does, and what a car does?
They both have the potential to take a life. Isn't that the relevant point here?
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RE: What would you think of making this a required safety feature?
February 21, 2014 at 2:27 pm
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(February 21, 2014 at 2:20 pm)KUSA Wrote: If you want to lower deaths from cancer then put this technology on a cigarette lighter. That way the wrong person can't light it.
As for your car you can put a breathalizer on it any time you want.
And if we want to drastically reduce gun deaths, the solution is, apparently, to ban them altogether.
That probably won't work here, though. One need only look at this thread to see what even the suggestion of a safety/security device, designed more to protect the owner than anything else, does to some people.
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RE: What would you think of making this a required safety feature?
February 21, 2014 at 2:42 pm
The truth comes out. This is simply part of a leftist agenda.
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