Are the DUI laws a joke? (1 Viewer)

[Zow]

Why don't we just install IID/breathalyzers into every car?

Because you can't punish the innocent.

Consider it a safety feature like seatbelts, air bags, or the computer chips that help you steer or brake in emergencies.

If you don't try to drink and drive.... you're innocent and you get to start your car. How many deaths/accidents would we prevent if every car on the road had this safety feature?

Wouldn't most of you sleep better at night with your children or spouse on the road, knowing the chances of a drunk driver killing them is very very slim if every car had one installed?

When you think about it, there is already a crude invention that can help a drunk driver. It allows them to sit back while the car travels from point A to point B safely. It's cheap, doesn't require retrofitting your current vehicle and it can be used only when the person needs it.

It's called a Taxi Cab.

Now this is a post I can get behind. It's always worth the cab fare or taking other forms of public transportation.

 

[Penguin]

Why don't we just install IID/breathalyzers into every car?

Because you can't punish the innocent.

Consider it a safety feature like seatbelts, air bags, or the computer chips that help you steer or brake in emergencies.

If you don't try to drink and drive.... you're innocent and you get to start your car. How many deaths/accidents would we prevent if every car on the road had this safety feature?

Wouldn't most of you sleep better at night with your children or spouse on the road, knowing the chances of a drunk driver killing them is very very slim if every car had one installed?

Just drive to the bar sober, park and leave it running, commence

 

[DA RAIDERS]

the laws are a joke, because they will never accomplish what you want them to.

people that want to drink and drive are going to do so, no matter what. people don't look at driving as a privilege, they view it as a right. and there is no way to stop someone from driving drunk if they want to. there are deterrents, but that's all they are.

just thought i'd repost this, havent read anymore except the update of the sentence. 15 year suspension means nothing

 

[Beerguzzler]

Ok I almost went through the whole thread, what I don't understand is why hasn't the MIL come live with your family yet and washed your hands of the FIL yet? If the whole family agrees he won't change... than the family needs to avoid the situation. Maybe losing his family will finally wake him up since apparently jail didn't do ####.

 

[msommer]

Why don't we just install IID/breathalyzers into every car?

Because you can't punish the innocent.

So have the guys with the DUIs pay for the installation in their car(s).

For every licensed person? Standard install of these things is about 200 bucks in my jurisdiction, plus 75/month maintenance and monitoring. They are also a pretty legitimate potential civil liability because they can distract a driver. So insurance would be needed

So.... we're probably looking at about 2k/licensed driver/year. So we're gonna fine a person convicted of DUI, oh, a 100k? And you think we could collect that? Presently courts are struggling to collect the 5kish fine lots of DUI defendants get now.

Way to overreact. KCitons understood correctly. The cars the DUI doofuses own should have the lock installed at the DUI doofuses' expense.

 

[msommer]

Why don't we just install IID/breathalyzers into every car?

Because you can't punish the innocent.

Consider it a safety feature like seatbelts, air bags, or the computer chips that help you steer or brake in emergencies.

If you don't try to drink and drive.... you're innocent and you get to start your car. How many deaths/accidents would we prevent if every car on the road had this safety feature?

Wouldn't most of you sleep better at night with your children or spouse on the road, knowing the chances of a drunk driver killing them is very very slim if every car had one installed?

Just drive to the bar sober, park and leave it running, commence

After a few weeks of this come out in the parking lot to a missing car. In your new car, pay for the installation again.

 

[Zow]

Why don't we just install IID/breathalyzers into every car?

Because you can't punish the innocent.

So have the guys with the DUIs pay for the installation in their car(s).

For every licensed person? Standard install of these things is about 200 bucks in my jurisdiction, plus 75/month maintenance and monitoring. They are also a pretty legitimate potential civil liability because they can distract a driver. So insurance would be needed

So.... we're probably looking at about 2k/licensed driver/year. So we're gonna fine a person convicted of DUI, oh, a 100k? And you think we could collect that? Presently courts are struggling to collect the 5kish fine lots of DUI defendants get now.

Way to overreact. KCitons understood correctly. The cars the DUI doofuses own should have the lock installed at the DUI doofuses' expense.

But that's already the case in about every state.

 

[Penguin]

Why don't we just install IID/breathalyzers into every car?

Because you can't punish the innocent.

Consider it a safety feature like seatbelts, air bags, or the computer chips that help you steer or brake in emergencies.

If you don't try to drink and drive.... you're innocent and you get to start your car. How many deaths/accidents would we prevent if every car on the road had this safety feature?

Wouldn't most of you sleep better at night with your children or spouse on the road, knowing the chances of a drunk driver killing them is very very slim if every car had one installed?

Just drive to the bar sober, park and leave it running, commence

After a few weeks of this come out in the parking lot to a missing car. In your new car, pay for the installation again.

Cheaper than those DUI surcharges that Jersey has

 

[johnnycakes]

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