Yes, true, fine. You know what reduces your reflex more than 1 drink? Being 40. Or paying attention to the radio. Or having a passenger. Or being a little tired.
Precisely why you shouldn't invite even more risks by drinking.
Driving is not safe. At some point the liberty you're willing to give up in an attempt to make it safer stops being a good trade-off.
1 drink (assuming the limit is similar to Belgium) vs 0 drinks.... wow that's a big amount of liberty right there!
There is no objective reason to say that the morality of the United States is better, worse or equal to the morality of the Taliban, morality, just like many other human constructs only exist in our minds, you might find the taliban to be cruel and hateful people, turns out they probably say the same things about you. Morality is not uniform, nor is it unchangeable, the Aztecs even sacrificed children & considered it morally sound.
The best thing you can do in such situations is to let them do their business in their little corner of the world & hope some day they'll have morals compatible with your own.
If it was consumer focused, this feature would be advertised as a selling point on cell phones. Turns out it's not for several reasons. One is that, in my opinion, commercial radio sucks. I rarely listen to the radio and when I do it's some form of public radio. There's probably a number of size and power constraints as well that result in every single leading cell phone lacking this 'feature.'
My HTC Legend has an FM radio, i launced the Radio app exactly once since i've bought it....
What is so hard about not drinking when you are on the road with your car? Really, is it going to kill you to drink water of whatever instead of beer? For all i care they can make the legal limit 0.000 for all i care, even one glass of beer reduces your reflexes, even if you're not aware of it.
To address some questions... I'm sad to say but I dated a girl who had one of these and it really did destroy the relationship because she could only drive to work and home from work. I would have to drive out and pick her up since she had a restricted license after getting a DUI.
And that killed your relationship? Shallow...
So to address people's questions: you have to make a sound with your voice as you blow and you have to blow strong while making that sound. I think it's calibrated to your voice so if you try a dust buster (not going to make the force needed) or your child you're not going to get your voice. The kid might work if you have enough time for them to try different ranges but it has to be a long continuous breath of full air.
If you've been drinking, and then decide to drive the car with your kid with you and then get the kid to blow instead of you, then you shouldn't be allowed to be driving at all, hell, you're not even suited to be a parent then in my opinion.
A month before she blew this, she was in the lowest range and then she blew right on the edge of this range that demanded this. I know there's a lot of people out there that have been negatively affected by drunk drivers but in most states the punishment really can be life destroying. I avoid it by using public transportation in DC when I drink but not everyone has that option.
You can also agree with friends to not drink on rotation, so that there's always a sober one who can drive, you can also simply not drink if you have to drive, i don't care if being stupid can be "life destroying" for you, you are endangering others with your stupidity.
I'm not against these things being used in serious cases. But your first offense with a DUI... where do we draw the line?
You shouldn't be getting that DUI in the first place, there is no excuse for driving under influence
If you think that's extreme punishment, then you have no clue whatsoever what extreme is, this is an inconvenience, and the expense isn't likely to kill you, if $230 (125 to install, 110 maintenance) is going to bankrupt people, then they shouldn't be wasting money on alcohol in the first place.
Besides, you know you're not allowed to drive under influence in the first place
Drunk driving is a problem here in Belgium too, and having been hit by a drunk imbecile, i can only applaud this move, i wished they enforced this in Belgium too.
The problem with drunk driving isn't that you risk killing yourself, you endanger everyone around you, i could care less if a drunk smashes into a tree & gets splattered all over the pavement, but unfortunately, they tend to take a lot of people with them while doing so.
If i'm out with my car i don't touch alcohol *AT ALL*, you don't need alcohol to have a good time, and if you do need it, then you have bigger problems...
When something is fashionable, it doesn't imply that it's good or bad, just that it's fashionable.
Fashionable however can be seen as a negative quality to some people, people who like individuality might dislike a product for this very reason, when it comes to the iPod/iPad/iPhone devices, you have fashionable devices which also are artificially limited, for starters they are tied to the iTunes application, meaning they're virtually useless unless you happen to have a PC with windows or macos x (ok, i use my iPod with linux without iTunes, but that's a nano, not sure if they all are usable without it) and on top of that, you can only install the applications Apple wants you to install (unless you jailbreak it), and honestly, i like my freedom.
At first I was really happy and impressed. If it were a matter of fashion and image, I liked what it said about me that I no longer had an iPhone. But then so many damned thing just didn't work right. The audio player was crap. The picture viewer was ok, but sub-par. It would randomly crash and reboot itself. Battery life was not what it should be-- I could never go two days straight without charging. The available apps were pretty crappy. The notifications were excessive, and the included tones were grating. Over the course of a couple months, I began remembering why it was that I always hated cell phones. I found myself swearing at it under my breath. I started imagine that the phone was an object with free will, hellbent on frustrating me.
This is very much the way i felt with MacOS X, KDE and Windows 7;)
Apple's marketing is unremarkable? Have you looked at a movie or a series lately? How many times do you see an Apple based product placed in there? The answer is: A LOT.
The classic Apple (Mac) market used to be the creative folks, then they expanded to the clueless folk, when they created the iPod (and the white earbuds, which ARE a fashion statement) they expended into the trendy hip folk, then came the iPhone, which again expanded their market share to the arrogant pricks market. Apple caters to anyone BUT geeks.
Does that mean their products are crap? No, heck, i actually own an iPod Nano because it's a good device, and can be used without that horrible iTunes bullshit, but i wouldn't buy any of their other gear because frankly, it's eighter locked down or basically expensive junk.
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No, but there's an app for that
You are still free to drink as much as you like, you are however, not free to endanger others through your actions.
Yes, true, fine. You know what reduces your reflex more than 1 drink? Being 40. Or paying attention to the radio. Or having a passenger. Or being a little tired.
Precisely why you shouldn't invite even more risks by drinking.
Driving is not safe. At some point the liberty you're willing to give up in an attempt to make it safer stops being a good trade-off.
1 drink (assuming the limit is similar to Belgium) vs 0 drinks.... wow that's a big amount of liberty right there!
argumentum ad ridicule
1) There are countries where the limit is effectively 0.0, see http://www.safetravel.co.uk/EuropeDrinkDrivingLimits.html
2) Nobody is forcing you to drink
Not while driving i'd hope!
Studies have proven that even 1 glass will reduce your reflexes, so yes, you are being impaired even if you don't realise it yourself.
There is no objective reason to say that the morality of the United States is better, worse or equal to the morality of the Taliban, morality, just like many other human constructs only exist in our minds, you might find the taliban to be cruel and hateful people, turns out they probably say the same things about you. Morality is not uniform, nor is it unchangeable, the Aztecs even sacrificed children & considered it morally sound.
The best thing you can do in such situations is to let them do their business in their little corner of the world & hope some day they'll have morals compatible with your own.
Since when are geeks drug addicts? (Well, except maybe caffeine)
Shouldn't you be chasing kids of your lawn old timer? ;)
If it was consumer focused, this feature would be advertised as a selling point on cell phones. Turns out it's not for several reasons. One is that, in my opinion, commercial radio sucks. I rarely listen to the radio and when I do it's some form of public radio. There's probably a number of size and power constraints as well that result in every single leading cell phone lacking this 'feature.'
My HTC Legend has an FM radio, i launced the Radio app exactly once since i've bought it....
What is so hard about not drinking when you are on the road with your car? Really, is it going to kill you to drink water of whatever instead of beer? For all i care they can make the legal limit 0.000 for all i care, even one glass of beer reduces your reflexes, even if you're not aware of it.
To address some questions ... I'm sad to say but I dated a girl who had one of these and it really did destroy the relationship because she could only drive to work and home from work. I would have to drive out and pick her up since she had a restricted license after getting a DUI.
And that killed your relationship? Shallow...
So to address people's questions: you have to make a sound with your voice as you blow and you have to blow strong while making that sound. I think it's calibrated to your voice so if you try a dust buster (not going to make the force needed) or your child you're not going to get your voice. The kid might work if you have enough time for them to try different ranges but it has to be a long continuous breath of full air.
If you've been drinking, and then decide to drive the car with your kid with you and then get the kid to blow instead of you, then you shouldn't be allowed to be driving at all, hell, you're not even suited to be a parent then in my opinion.
A month before she blew this, she was in the lowest range and then she blew right on the edge of this range that demanded this. I know there's a lot of people out there that have been negatively affected by drunk drivers but in most states the punishment really can be life destroying. I avoid it by using public transportation in DC when I drink but not everyone has that option.
You can also agree with friends to not drink on rotation, so that there's always a sober one who can drive, you can also simply not drink if you have to drive, i don't care if being stupid can be "life destroying" for you, you are endangering others with your stupidity.
I'm not against these things being used in serious cases. But your first offense with a DUI ... where do we draw the line?
You shouldn't be getting that DUI in the first place, there is no excuse for driving under influence
1) It's limited in time
2) Don't get convicted of DUI
If you think that's extreme punishment, then you have no clue whatsoever what extreme is, this is an inconvenience, and the expense isn't likely to kill you, if $230 (125 to install, 110 maintenance) is going to bankrupt people, then they shouldn't be wasting money on alcohol in the first place.
Besides, you know you're not allowed to drive under influence in the first place
Gotta make sure drunks don't drink behind the wheel
Drunk driving is a problem here in Belgium too, and having been hit by a drunk imbecile, i can only applaud this move, i wished they enforced this in Belgium too.
The problem with drunk driving isn't that you risk killing yourself, you endanger everyone around you, i could care less if a drunk smashes into a tree & gets splattered all over the pavement, but unfortunately, they tend to take a lot of people with them while doing so.
If i'm out with my car i don't touch alcohol *AT ALL*, you don't need alcohol to have a good time, and if you do need it, then you have bigger problems...
They call those people potheads for a reason....
Sound out of sync, now THAT's something i hate
The last game console i owned was a Sega Genesis....
One word: PORN
Apple makes stuff that work well if you limit yourself to what they expect you to do, and do it their way.
When something is fashionable, it doesn't imply that it's good or bad, just that it's fashionable.
Fashionable however can be seen as a negative quality to some people, people who like individuality might dislike a product for this very reason, when it comes to the iPod/iPad/iPhone devices, you have fashionable devices which also are artificially limited, for starters they are tied to the iTunes application, meaning they're virtually useless unless you happen to have a PC with windows or macos x (ok, i use my iPod with linux without iTunes, but that's a nano, not sure if they all are usable without it) and on top of that, you can only install the applications Apple wants you to install (unless you jailbreak it), and honestly, i like my freedom.
At first I was really happy and impressed. If it were a matter of fashion and image, I liked what it said about me that I no longer had an iPhone. But then so many damned thing just didn't work right. The audio player was crap. The picture viewer was ok, but sub-par. It would randomly crash and reboot itself. Battery life was not what it should be-- I could never go two days straight without charging. The available apps were pretty crappy. The notifications were excessive, and the included tones were grating. Over the course of a couple months, I began remembering why it was that I always hated cell phones. I found myself swearing at it under my breath. I started imagine that the phone was an object with free will, hellbent on frustrating me.
This is very much the way i felt with MacOS X, KDE and Windows 7 ;)
Apple's marketing is unremarkable? Have you looked at a movie or a series lately? How many times do you see an Apple based product placed in there? The answer is: A LOT.
The classic Apple (Mac) market used to be the creative folks, then they expanded to the clueless folk, when they created the iPod (and the white earbuds, which ARE a fashion statement) they expended into the trendy hip folk, then came the iPhone, which again expanded their market share to the arrogant pricks market. Apple caters to anyone BUT geeks.
Does that mean their products are crap? No, heck, i actually own an iPod Nano because it's a good device, and can be used without that horrible iTunes bullshit, but i wouldn't buy any of their other gear because frankly, it's eighter locked down or basically expensive junk.