Yeah, I meant specifically in reply to someone saying it should be standard. Well designed as an installed device like a breathalyzer to start the car I could see it potentially being a worthwhile tool in addition to licence revocation, since folks often still drive on revoked licenses.
But I think you’d need to design it very carefully for a variety of reasons including road saftey- taking away agency from the person operating the vehicle always has potential risks that would need to be carefully considered and mitigated as best as possible
Fair enough then, I can’t see the comment you were replying to so I didn’t know that. As for the revoked license thing, I honestly think you should be forced to sell your car if your license gets revoked, with significant penalties for anyone else that allows someone with a revoked license to drive their car.
Im pretty sure all new cars already have GPS and cellular service installed. The federal government also passed legislation to mandate “driver fatigue” cameras in the dash stating in 2027 (part of Biden’s big infrastructure bill), which will monitor your face and track your eyes constantly and not allow you to drive if it thinks you’re fatigued or impaired.
It’s not built into cars inherently, so at least that’s not a concern.
Yeah, I meant specifically in reply to someone saying it should be standard. Well designed as an installed device like a breathalyzer to start the car I could see it potentially being a worthwhile tool in addition to licence revocation, since folks often still drive on revoked licenses.
But I think you’d need to design it very carefully for a variety of reasons including road saftey- taking away agency from the person operating the vehicle always has potential risks that would need to be carefully considered and mitigated as best as possible
Fair enough then, I can’t see the comment you were replying to so I didn’t know that. As for the revoked license thing, I honestly think you should be forced to sell your car if your license gets revoked, with significant penalties for anyone else that allows someone with a revoked license to drive their car.
All good :)
I feel like that has too many practical implications to be great policy in practice, but I can certainly agree with the sentiment
Im pretty sure all new cars already have GPS and cellular service installed. The federal government also passed legislation to mandate “driver fatigue” cameras in the dash stating in 2027 (part of Biden’s big infrastructure bill), which will monitor your face and track your eyes constantly and not allow you to drive if it thinks you’re fatigued or impaired.