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Re: Toyota Developing Drunken Driving System
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> "Wickeddoll®" :[color=green][color=darkred]
>> >> (Andrew Stephenson) wrote:
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>> >> "badgolferman" writes:
>> >> sharx35:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > > "Hachiroku ????" ...
>> >> >> > >
>> >> >> > > > I believe once the car is started, the system is disabled.
>> >> >> > >
>> >> >> > > Sweat sensors in the steering wheel detect alcohol.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Gloves.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Voice recognition system that requires you say, three times, fast
>> >> >> and accurately: "The Leith police dismisseth me."
>> >> >>
>> >> >> [Leith = town in Scotland]
>> >> >
>> >> > How about a breath-a-lizer that would require the driver to speak
>> >> > into
>> >> > a
>> >> > tube and say the words: may I drive my car now pleeeeesssseeee.
>> >> >
>> >> > This will have to be repeated three times then the car will start if
>> >> > you
>> >> > pass the test. I think sharx will like that one.
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>> >> I'm pretty sure I saw something on the news about something precisely
>> >> like
>> >> that. Sounds technically very problematic to me.
>> >>
>> >> Natalie
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>> > I was sort of trying to be funny, but the idea of please exagerated is
>> > to get breath air into the tube for sampling. I doubt any system like
>> > that will see the light of day, but then again who knows.
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>> I knew you were kidding, that's why I mentioned it LOL
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>> This wasn't voluntary - it was something to install on multiple DUI
>> offenders.
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>> In the demonstration I saw, the main thing that concerned them was that
>> the
>> system couldn't really be calibrated properly.
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>> I don't think it'll work, anyway.
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>> Natalie[/color]
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> Education and alert friends and bartenders is the best defense at this
> time. Keep em off the road.
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Yup. So simple, yet so complex.
Natalie
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