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Drink driving-virtue signaling gone mad

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  • #602
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Graces7 wrote: »
    There are already cars that refuse to start if you are drunk. Story on the news this week of a woman in the US who shot her car when it refused.
    What the yanks really need is a gun that refuses to shoot when the owner is drunk :pac:


  • #603
    alan partridge aha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭alan partridge aha


    ArrBee wrote: »
    This sort of information/product review is interesting and helpful, thanks.

    Ya I think this device is accurate.


  • #604
    TheChizler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,474 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    alan partridge aha wrote: »
    Ya I think this device is accurate.
    How have you independently tested it?


  • #605
    alan partridge aha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭alan partridge aha


    TheChizler wrote: »
    How have you independently tested it?

    I'd didn't, the meter is calibrated for a year. I don't get my car's speedo calibrated either. I'm such a fool.


  • #606
    TheChizler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,474 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    alan partridge aha wrote: »
    I'd didn't, the meter is calibrated for a year. I don't get my car's speedo calibrated either. I'm such a fool.
    Only one of those things is heavily regulated...


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  • #607
    alan partridge aha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭alan partridge aha


    TheChizler wrote: »
    Only one of those things is heavily regulated...

    ???


  • #608
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    recedite wrote: »
    What the yanks really need is a gun that refuses to shoot when the owner is drunk :pac:

    amen to that.

    Maybe one day soon all cars will have that device that detects alcohol in breath and will not start... great idea


  • #609
    epicmoe
    Registered Users Posts: 122 ✭✭epicmoe


    Maxed-irl wrote: »
    Not according to the government or the radio ads etc . I dont condone someone having a pint and driving home. I worked in a bar and fought with people over it. Ibe walked home rather than take a lift off a friend. But I cant see how someone cant have a few beers at the weekend and sleep and be unable to drive for 16 hours after their last beer. I understand that the calculators are just ass covering but still someone that goes out to commit drink driving after being in the pub cannot be the same as someone who has beers gets a taxi home has a chipper goes asleep wakes up has a coffee and gets in the car clearly the way it has to be dealt with is different.

    Di you not hear the recent ads against drinking and walking?
    I am not even kidding.

    "don't walk home if you've had a pint"


  • #610
    TheChizler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,474 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    alan partridge aha wrote: »
    ???
    The car industry is heavily regulated. There are laws about how much a speedo can error by and on what side of the actual speed, i.e. it can never underread, unless you put on massive tyres or something. No such laws around breathalysers.

    Also over time with no maintenance and tyres deflate/wear a speedo will tend to overread so you're less likely to break the law accidentally. As the breathalysers lose calibration over time and get less sensitive they'll likely underread so you're more at risk.

    I'm sure they're fun to use and work accurately most of the time but I wouldn't be using it for anything more than entertainment value.


  • #611
    xckjoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,398 ✭✭✭xckjoo


    TheChizler wrote: »
    The car industry is heavily regulated. There are laws about how much a speedo can error by and on what side of the actual speed, i.e. it can never underread, unless you put on massive tyres or something. No such laws around breathalysers.

    Also over time with no maintenance and tyres deflate/wear a speedo will tend to overread so you're less likely to break the law accidentally. As the breathalysers lose calibration over time and get less sensitive they'll likely underread so you're more at risk.

    I'm sure they're fun to use and work accurately most of the time but I wouldn't be using it for anything more than entertainment value.
    To be fair Alan has already said in this thread that he's aware of this. Might be back a few pages now


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  • #612
    TheChizler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,474 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    xckjoo wrote: »
    To be fair Alan has already said in this thread that he's aware of this. Might be back a few pages now
    True, but when people are reading something as a product review which says something is accurate I feel it's a good idea to point out the risk.


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