It's not just "a little dytopian but..." it's dytopian PERIOD. And what's next, and what's after that, is WAY worse. Stop it now.
I'm curious how this would be implemented to only detect alcohol impairment, wouldn't it be technically easier to check for impairment of any kind, including drowsiness?<p>And I am really interested how they would sort through false positives of a passenger being drunk but the designated driver is not, someone having open alcohol in the car, using alcohols to sanitize etc.
I know that a lot of people will find this to be a little dystopian.<p>To me, as long as it’s done in a way that’s reliably accurate with no false positives, unobtrusive to use, and doesn’t phone the police or write a guilty-until-proven-innocent-ticket, I think it’s a great idea.<p>Alcohol-impaired crashes are responsible for 30% of all traffic fatalities. [1] That’s huge.<p>Way too many people casually drive drunk or buzzed.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-alcohol-impaired-driving" rel="nofollow">https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-alcohol-...</a>
In the linked press-release, they call equally for "intelligent speed adaptation systems", which I think would annoy a much wider proportion of the country than alcohol detection.<p>I remember decades ago being amazed that Japan's commercial trucks had lights on the outside of the cabs that showed how fast they were going to aid speeding enforcement. A signal of wrong-doing, rather than a lock on wrong doing. Maybe that's the trick to adoption.
We already live in a tyrannical "Utopia" - this particular stomping of rights is actually a scene in this short film, which was a joke when it was filmed just a few years ago - BTW, it's worth spending a few minutes to watch the whole thing...<p><a href="https://youtu.be/vJYaXy5mmA8" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/vJYaXy5mmA8</a> (The car scene is less than a minute and a half in...)