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I suspect the edge cases will do this in. False positives are potentially discriminatory and are dangerous if they prevent someone from driving in an emergency.
by smelendez 4y ago
I suspect the edge cases will do this in. False positives are potentially discriminatory and are dangerous if they prevent someone from driving in an emergency.
I also suspect many people favor letting some legally over the limit people drive, at least short distances, in certain emergency situations, like transporting relatives who can’t walk away from a fire. Exactly what those situations are seems like a subject of contention.
There’s also the related interesting case of moving vehicles on private property. For instance, a couple has a few cocktails at home, their car is towards the bottom of a sloped driveway under a tree, and there’s an unexpected flash flood or high wind warning. Should the car prevent them from driving it forward a few feet to safety?
- r2_pilot 4y agoWell, just this past Sunday I literally had a random drunk driver pull onto my private property and proceed to wreck their vehicle in my front yard. While the interlock would have kept them from starting the vehicle originally, the stupidity from drunkenness is still present regardless of location or speed. I strongly disagree with interlocks (someone could have just cleaned their hands with alcohol sanitizer, or someone spilled a beer on their hand or on the sensor itself), but I would be more amenable to something that could be overridden immediately but with some warning notification lights on the vehicle with laws stating you will be pulled over for inspection and you(not insurance) will be responsible for any damages or accidents you caused if proven drunk driving after disabling the lock.
- dahfizz 4y ago> I would be more amenable to something that could be overridden immediately but with some warning notification lights on the vehicle I think that is a pretty good solution. In any emergency/ edge case / false positive scenario, you are still able operate your car. But a "pull me over" light goes on so that cops will know to double check in "regular" scenarios.
- Gigachad 4y agoIt would make sense to make the system possible to disable and then make speeding a much much more serious crime where unless you can prove it was an emergency or other edge case, you lose your license on first offense.