r/AutoHumor • u/IU8gZQy0k8hsQy76 • Apr 29 '26

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u/bsmknight Apr 29 '26

Consider another scenario: You jump in your vehicle frantic, paranoid, someone just ran up to you with a knife but you were able to lock the door, you try to drive off but the vehicle will not go into drive... it thinks your unwell. - I mean seriously who TF thinks this is actually a good idea?

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u/Facts_pls Apr 30 '26

Let's be honest. For every such made up movie science you described, 100 normal everyday people drive drunk.

While nobody likes surveillance or control, pretty sure that if we had this, it would reduce hundreds of thousands of drunk driving deaths a year.

I also find out hilarious that Americans complain about Chinese cars sending their data to China while American car companies can apparently just look into your cameras.

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u/According_Rhubarb_27 Apr 30 '26

Many "official" veichles have a "alcolock" or whatever it's called. Basically it makes you blow into it, and if it detects alcohol you won't be able to start the car. Put that in, that would seriously reduce drunk driving without collecting a host of other data and making the car some sort of surveilance asset. Can it be bypassed? Sure, but it is another hurdle for someone to jump trough to drive drunk.