Good to Drive? New Ignition Lock Laws Ask You to Prove It

In Illinois, the cellphone-sized gadgets cost around $80 to install on a dashboard and $80 a month to rent, alongside a $50 monthly state fee and the money comes out of the offender's pocket. Pass the test once and you're good to go right? Think again: Drivers are forced to take periodic "rolling retests" to make sure they didn't liquor up the latte they just bought at a Starbucks drive-through. Fail a test and the infraction is reported big-brother style to your local precinct, where the authorities will process and notify you of your violation.
While we are definitely in favor of preventing drunk driving deaths, forcing drivers to retest themselves while on the road seems dangerous in its own right. With navigation systems, cell phones, and iPods now dominating our dashboards, driving can be distracting enough. [From: Yahoo]





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Subscribe to commentsgiffJan 4th 2009 11:48AM
Good! I hope ALL states employ this strategy. there are FAR too many people driving on the road under the influence and thinking "I'm okay, I only had a couple of beers" until they hit someone. And unfortunately, the drunks usually come out of the crash easy and someone else is dead or severely injured. I'm sure there will be an outcry from the alcoholics of the world who think it's their 'right' to drive drunk or under the influence, but they forget that driving is a privilege not a right in the first place. And perhaps, instead of the 'rolling' test, they should just get a message that says "pull over and submit to an additional test, you have 5 minutes to get to the side of the road". If it interrupts their trip...too freakin bad.
the testing device should also include DNA of the testee so the right person is being tested. Otherwise, alky's will just get a sober friend to start up their car.
CarolynJan 4th 2009 12:57PM
I don't drink, but I am making payments on a car in my mom's name. I & probably countless others wonder how effective this will actually be when all you have to do is drive someone else's car or have someone else start your's.
AineJan 5th 2009 8:47AM
Giff... but the Carolyn too, gees: what makes you think a sober person is going to help a drunk one get behind the wheel of a moving vehicle?
Apparently you seem to think not only is alcoholism "bad," but anyone who befriends an alcoholic Must of Course lack so much in their own moral compass as to enable this behavior while stone-cold-sober themselves.
Wow. I don't want to live in the world you so delusionally think we all reside in.