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To be fair, there are plenty of reasons to avoid DUI checkpoints even if you're not driving impaired. They tend to substantially slow down traffic, for one.
by ianferrel 15y ago
To be fair, there are plenty of reasons to avoid DUI checkpoints even if you're not driving impaired.
They tend to substantially slow down traffic, for one.
- siglesias 15y agoDo you check for DUI checkpoints every time you get in your car? Because I don't.
- noarchy 15y agoMost people wouldn't think to do it. But if you have a busted tail light of which you were not aware, for example, rest assured that you'll know about it after passing through a "DUI" checkpoint.
- siglesias 15y agoCome on. This is a weak argument. Most people are going to get this app so that they can drink and drive, not to avoid getting busted for a broken taillight.
- noarchy 15y agoThat may be the case, but my point (which I tried to infer, if unsuccessfully) was that these are much more than "DUI" checkpoints. Apple shouldn't be swallowing the government's line about this.
- _delirium 15y agoI don't mostly because it's not easy. If there were an easy way to see where police roadblocks are, I would definitely glance at it and avoid them, because I don't really like interacting with police. I've never had any particularly bad experiences, fortunately, but it still slightly creeps me out to have to go through a police checkpoint in my own country, especially absent exigent circumstances like a recent shooting, or prison break, or something. (I don't really like going through the permanent immigration-check roadblock on I-10 in West Texas, either, but no app can do much about that one.) Although what I'd really prefer is not a separate app I have to consciously check, but integration with a GPS routing device, the way some of them can use real-time traffic info. Just let me program in a police-roadblock penalty (say, call it equal to 30 minutes of traffic), and then reroute based on the real-time roadblocks info; that way I routinely avoid police roadblocks in my daily life without having to think about it.
- unshift 15y agonot to mention they give out more seatbelt and sticker violations at DUI checkpoints than they do DUIs
- lurchpop 15y agoNot to mention the fact that they violate the 4th amendment and even the founder of MADD is against them.
- aguynamedben 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Exceptions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_... Where society's need is great and no other effective means of meeting the need is available, and intrusion on people's privacy is minimal, checkpoints toward that end may briefly detain motorists. In Michigan v. Sitz 496 U.S. 444 (1990), the Supreme Court allowed discretionless sobriety checkpoints.
- ignifero 15y agoDon't you guys have friends who died DUI? Here in southern europe it's a big probelm. I hate it that when i learn somebody i knew died or killed this way, i can't help thinking 'he brought it to himself'.
- tzs 15y agoNote, however, that a good crowd-sourced traffic monitoring app could deal with that, without having to know that it is a DUI checkpoint. It just needs to know that there is an area where traffic is slow.