Toyota Creating In-Vehicle Alcohol Detection System

srizah writes "Toyota is developing an Alcohol Detection System that can detect drunken drivers and would immobilize the car when it detects excessive alcohol consumption. From the article: 'Cars fitted with the detection system will not start if sweat sensors in the driving wheel detect high levels of alcohol in the driver's bloodstream, according to a report carried by the mass-circulation daily, Asahi Shimbun. The system could also kick in if the sensors detect abnormal steering, or if a special camera shows that the driver's pupils are not in focus. The car is then slowed to a halt, the report said.'"

Comments

Ob

[lastchance_000]

"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that"

Re:Ob

[Kingrames]

That's not what the OP said either.
In any case, I give up. Winning in pedantry wars isn't really all it's cracked up to be.

Re:Ob

[ENIGMAwastaken]

Yes it is.

There are ways this could be more interesting.

[pizzach]

Slowing to a halt is all good and dandy but a bit anti-clamactic. It would be much more interesting if the breaks automatically locked, the airbags went off, all of the lights inside flipping on and off like the starship Enterprise in red alert etc etc. Defintely would scare the heck out of me. Maybe they should make the system automatically put the warning flashers on too for good measure. :)

Re:There are ways this could be more interesting.

[CdBee]

the true guarantee of safe driving technique: remove airbag, replace with a sharp spike

Re:easy cheating

[Joebert]

And make sure they're a size too small, just trust me on this.

Easily beatable

[straponego]

Cars fitted with the detection system will not start if sweat sensors in the driving wheel detect high levels of alcohol in the driver's bloodstream

Pfft. Gloves.

or if a special camera shows that the driver's pupils are not in focus.

Pfft. Blindfold.

You'll have to try harder than that to infringe on my freedoms, Toyota!

Re:Dangerous

[Joebert]

Car : *doesn't start*
Drunk : *starts using towel*
*time elapsed*
Car : Drunk driver detected, shutting down in 60, 59, 58, 57...
Drunk : *mashes gas pedel*

Re:Imagine if this malnfunctioned on the freeway

[bahwi]

People also drink and get home safely, by bus, driving themselves, taxi, or otherwise. Whereas some people don't drink, go to church, and regularly beat their wife and children, pee on the floor. And hell, slow drivers cause accidents too. Lots of people can run someone over and completely blackout, all without alcohol. These things aren't related, and you relating them causes me to think you are already drunk. But that doesn't mean you are.

There's no shame in not drinking though, but to associate them is just silly. Voting republican, IMO, causes more deaths each year than drinking. But that's my opinion, and doesn't make it right.

Will blow for food

[goombah99]

I predict you will see bums holding signs in nigteclub parking lots.

Old Joke

[Morosoph]

Winning in pedantry wars isn't really all it's cracked up to be. It's pedanticism, silly, as in "If there's one thing that I cannot stand, it's pedanticism".

Well this sucks.

[raehl]

They are used here in the states as well. Unfortunately, these can be easily defeated by having a child or friend blow into the tube so the car starts.

I really don't have the trunk space to be hauling around a child just to get my car started.