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by eluketronic 1369 days ago
This seems akin to trying to change our nations attitude towards guns and semi automatic weapons instead of improving gun control legislation. According to the 2020 figures in the article > 10,000 people are dying every year from alcohol-related accidents. If there’s something tangible that can be done to reduce that death count, I’m all for it. As wonderful as it would be to reform the national attitude towards alcohol and excessive drinking, the alcohol lobby and our stubbornness as a culture would probably make it very challenging to effect any meaningful change. It’ll be interesting to see how far this gets from a technical standpoint and, if it does actually make it into new vehicles, how many work-arounds people come up with.
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> If there’s something tangible that can be done to reduce that death count, I’m all for it.

If we just put everyone in jail, there would be many fewer DUI deaths.

Yeah, it’d come at the cost of some liberty, but apparently that’s no big deal anymore.