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Tostitos' Breathalyzer Bags Can Detect If You're Drunk -- Then Call Uber
Slashdot reader schwit1 writes that Tostito's corn chips "has developed a special bag, available for a limited time, that can detect if you've had too much to drink." Its all-black packaging measures your breath for traces of alcohol, and if the test reveals you're sober, a green circle appears on the bag. But, Mashable reports...
If it decides you've been drinking -- regardless of how much -- an image of a red steering wheel appears on the otherwise stark black bag along with a reminder not to drive and a code for a $10 Uber discount (valid only on Super Bowl Sunday). And if you've had so much to drink that the mere act of hailing an Uber becomes a difficult chore, the bag will even do that for you. The package is equipped with near-field communication technology that will automatically order a ride when tapped with a smartphone.
http://mashable.com/2017/01/25...
craving Tostitos is by itself an indicator that you've been smoking enough weed and should stay away from 7-11.
lucm, indeed.
You are drunk
I know what really makes me crave a bag of munchies.
This story was also posted on The Consumerist: Tostitos ‘Party Safe’ Bags Will Detect If You’ve Been Drinking; Help You Call Uber
It doesn't 'tell you you are drunk', it merely detects the presence of alcohol on your breath. You'd need an actual breathalyzer to determine if you're above the legal limit or not.
More electronics that will end up going in a landfill. If we end up polluting out planet to the point we extinguish all human life, know that we deserved it. Oh, nice link by the way. It goes right back to this very submission. I hope Slashdot editors are the first ones to go extinct.
I for one welcome our new Tostitos-eating cannibal hamster overlords.
So this is really just a big old ad by Uber right? Various news agencies has fallen for it completely and spread it for free.
Drunkenness could be defeated better by enacting a muslim registry.
You do know that devout Muslims don't drink, right?
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
I'm not really getting the motivation for Doritos to keep this honest. What will keep it from going to the truth, to 'have half a drink and we make money on an uber for you'.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Basically Tostitos has an interesting viral marketing campaign happening during the superbowl. since Tostitos purchases are likely to peak at televised events like superbowl, a novelty, subvertizeing has been inserted into people's snacks. they're betting people will pick a bag up for snacks and not immediately throw it into the trash, but keep it around the house until at least a few beers are consumed. I think that's a deviously clever way of keeping even the bag branding intact in someone's house during the big game. during and aftewards we'll get superbowl related social media photos etc. with how drunk people made their bags.
lots of comments are already devoted to making fun with how useless it is, or how drunk you have to be before you blow into a bag. However, when things don't make sense sense, they usually make marketing sense, and i think Tostitos has thoughtfully put together a marketing campaign that would reach more people than paying for some overpriced superbowl ad.
If you're going to drive don't drink at all, it's really that simple. Don't give people an excuse to try and drink as much as they can get away with.
Like the good man said, if you have to worry about drinking too much it's a sure sign you're not to be trusted when you do.
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
ummmm...what is their liability if the bag doesn't work?
Oh man, the legal liability Tostitos could be exposed to here is delicious. "Well your Honour, my client was worried that I he was a bit too drunk to drive, but he blew into an empty chip bag and it said he was fine to drive. Therefore, I move to find Tostitos to be legally liable for the death of that family with young children who were run off the road by my client. The chip bag was collected as evidence at the scene." Tostitos had better be damned sure those things work as promised when mass-produced. ...and they'd better be ready to lawyer up.
So can the bag be used against you as evidence if you test positive and still drive and have a accident? Is the $10 a credit for Uber which I know will be charging way more for rides on Super Sunday. Sorry, this is a gimmick all around and not addressing the real problem of alcoholism in America.
When you open any Tostitos bag now, an included audio chip automatically plays five minutes of disclaimers and lack of indemnity as the user consumes chips. Also each chip has the words "I AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS" printed in delicious blue-corn ink on the surface of each chip.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
.. this ugly bag of mostly alcohol will be watching real futbol at home, and will not need to french kiss this amazing technology.
and how much of puke fee does the driver get?
And there's not supposed to blow themselves up, either.
Ohhh....
fineprint on the back of the bag reads:
By opening this bag of chips, you agree...
Seriously?
Given the history of schwit1's postings here, I'm surprised it didn't say something like that in TFS.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
But I stand by my main post - if you're idiot enough to provide potentially incriminating evidence to a communications-enabled device without complete control over how that evidence will be used, you deserve to be ground beneath the wheel.
aye aaaam verryry cappababale to deterrrrrmine it mslef.... sirreeee. Nooo technolologically devais rekwaaaairuhd
Seriously, Uber needs to know that the world doesn't support their bigotry and intolerance.
When you're drunk, you're too drunk to judge a random driver. So better call a taxi.
They say in 2015 45 people were killed as a result of drunk driving. Seriously? A whole 45? lol! I bet an order of magnitude more people than that die sitting on the couch in one day
- don't know how much you drunk
- need a nanny
you have a bigger problem than another gadget can fix
Just how damn expensive is this bag of Tostito's? IF they didnt raise the price they've got to be taking a loss. Note to self, buy a couple to ebay later.
We can only hope they get the Mexicans and ragheads off the roads around here. At least we won't have tons of innocent families being slaughtered every week by drunks (the Mexicans) and morons (the ragheads who only have experience driving camels)
If you can't remember whether or not you have drunk any alcohol:
Yes. Yes you have.
Fuck you,.. you little..fucking... snack bag thing.
You think you're so hot? I don't need you. I don't need you at all.
Hmmm...just a little bit of your savory contents...ummmm.
Who are you to judge me? Why don't you contemplate your own short, judgemental existence. At least I'm not going to wind up in a garbage bin...
Not if I can just navigate my legs around that one there....
(...crash, bang...)
fuck. don't look at me like that,
I swear officer!
Now Tostitos will get boycotted by the organized anti-Trump protest groups because they hate Uber for supplying rides to travelers at JFK when taxi unions called for a boycott at JFK over the two Iraqis detained because of Trumps EO regarding people coming into the US from certain majority-Muslim nations & regions.
That's going to leave a lot of pasty nerd/geek basement-dwellers heavily conflicted!
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
Steering wheel means safe to drive, right?
Red, green, what's the difference? I'm colorblind and someone obviously did not think this through.
Gonna drive drunk now! Thanks, Tostitos! I'll blame you!
The link in the slashdot story leads to...https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/01/29/1942208/mashable.com/2017/01/25/tostitos-breathalyzer-bag-super-bowl/...the slashdot story itself.
Brilliant recursive clickthrough ad-revenue perpetual motion?
Or, perhaps the poster was drunk?
-Styopa
You're racist if you use uber now
You don't know me... Tostitos bag! Tellin' me I'm drunk...
No one tells me I'm drunk. Even the little glass drinkee glasses, they don't know me. And the immigrants! Thanks Obama!! Young people today. Textin' and wearin' their floppy pants and Facebook. More like Facedrink! Can I have another one of... yeah... good...
Hoooweeee I'm warm! Is anyone else warm? I'm just gonna take off my shoes and maybe my pants. Too warm. What is with the weather these days?
Where was I? Oh yeah, Tostitios, don't tell me (whoopsie, I fell!)
I hope they didn't sell any of these in most on NY state. They might have a lawsuit on their hands.
Star Trek, there maybe hope.
This headline reads like a Strongbad email.
That's what is Heineken for. It's not really beer (perhaps the western European version of the proverbial Bud made in the US) and the cans, bottles and packages are green.
Ever been in Saudi Arabia? No alcohol in the supermarket, because 'huuu, bad, haram!' But a whole damn wall full of all equipment and ingredients of wine making sets and distillery equipment. And nobody bats an eye. Hypocritical as fuck.
That being, would you not have any alcohol on your breath it should order you a crate of beer and have ubereats to show up with it post-haste.
The easier way to tell if I'm drunk: I'm eating Tostitos at all.
Ever been in United States? No human hunting, because 'huuu, bad, harambe!' But a whole damn sporting goods store full of all equipment and ingredients for human hunting and murder equipment. And nobody bats an eye. Hypocritical as fuck.