# What do you think about this/ **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [August 4, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501 "2021-08-04T17:44:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 1:03am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/41 "2021-08-08T01:03:55Z")
> [@Remazz](#): > > Breathalizers and all other devices that test breath use a new straw each time. Buy stock in straw companies. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/42 "2021-08-08T02:39:24Z")
> [@Remazz](#): > > Google and other web searches show nothing about that DWI/visit family story. Do you have a source? As you, I have absolutely no idea what you are referring to. I never mentioned any DWI family story. Back to straws I guess. Whatever. A little black coffee? ---
**Author:** ![Remazz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Remazz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Remazz)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 2:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/43 "2021-08-08T02:50:24Z")
The comment was entered as a reply to the post about a DWI who was ordered by the judge to visit the family of his victim. I don’t know why it was posted to you. ---
**Author:** ![Remazz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Remazz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Remazz)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 2:52am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/44 "2021-08-08T02:52:12Z")
Except that, as was noted a number of times by posters, the likelihood of such devices ever appearing on vehicles is slim to none. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 2:58am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/45 "2021-08-08T02:58:51Z")
> [@Remazz](#): > > The comment was entered as a reply to the post about a DWI who was ordered by the judge to visit the family of his victim. I don’t know why it was posted to you. That was @ok4450 from Oklahoma. Nothing to do with me. All I will say is watch your blood pressure. There are serious things to get upset about instead. ---
**Author:** ![Remazz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Remazz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Remazz)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 3:05am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/46 "2021-08-08T03:05:34Z")
It was posted as a reply to him, as I said. (Is English your first language? Second?). I’m not upset, your posts are funny, keep them coming. ---
**Author:** ![B.L.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@B.L.E](https://community.cartalk.com/u/B.L.E)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 3:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/47 "2021-08-08T03:18:23Z")
I don’t even like the idea of GPS monitors that report your “safe” driving to your insurance company for lower rates. My fear is not that the insurance company will discover that I drive dangerously, but they will discover just how much I drive. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 3:29am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/48 "2021-08-08T03:29:27Z")
> [@Remazz](#): > > It was posted as a reply to him, as I said. (Is English your first language? Second?). Gott in Himmel. Go back and read the responses. Nothing to do with me. Give it up and go to bed. ---
**Author:** ![Nevada\_545](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nevada_545/32/41232_2.png) [@Nevada\_545](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Nevada_545)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 3:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/49 "2021-08-08T03:33:37Z")
> [@Remazz](#): > > The comment was entered as a reply to the post about a DWI Obviously you were responding to post # 20 about the Oklahoma DWI case, it is a shame you had to explain that. ---
**Author:** ![Remazz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Remazz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Remazz)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 3:37am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/50 "2021-08-08T03:37:09Z")
It’s a shame I had to explain it twice to Bing, who, as we can see above, still doesn’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2021, 5:03am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/51 "2021-08-08T05:03:14Z")
> [@Nevada\_545](#): > > Obviously you were responding to post # 20 about the Oklahoma DWI case, it is a shame you had to explain that. Well obviously if you go back to 19 and 20 it had nothing to do with me so why ask me for a citation? Of course thinking every local court decision in small towns across the country are in Google. Can’t find it in Google, didn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![wentwest](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/wentwest/32/6073_2.png) [@wentwest](https://community.cartalk.com/u/wentwest)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/52 "2021-08-09T15:48:48Z")
Well, we’ve wandered far afield from cars, haven’t we? All this complaining about the “intrusion” of technology into our cars and lives brings up something that gets overlooked. Why do you think Google “gives” you such a useful service? Or all the map apps? Or Siri or Alexa or whatever? All these services, including this CarTalk app, are based on good old capitalism. They are making money, enormous amounts of money, off of you. You are paying for all these services by generously allowing these companies to gather massive amounts of info about you. Do you like using the voice commands on your smart TV? You do understand that means the TV has to be listening to you all the time, waiting for your next command? While it’s waiting it’s also listening to everything else you say, it’s noting what you like to watch, which commercials you mute and which you watch, when you’re home, how late you stay up, etc. If you are offended by this stuff you can choose to not use it. Turn off the computer and the smart phone, turn off the safety features on your car, turn off location on everything, use a landline and your 1985 F-150, use an antenna on your TV, dump the internet altogether. ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/53 "2021-08-10T20:57:55Z")
Since Remazz chose to bash me a little I will address a couple of his comments. The story about the DWI/pay the family a dollar per week was in the Daily Oklahoma newspaper. I’m simply relating what they published 20 years ago. I’m not going to spend hours poring over the internet to dredge up old news stories. Feel free to contact the Daily Oklahoman. Maybe they can help… As for the cars sensing sugar/salt intake I got that from a good long time friend who lives in MO. He is a lifetime GM and Chrysler tech and like me he’s attended countless service schools. He was at a GM school in Kansas City and the instructor at that school told them about the sensors they were experimenting with to detect things like that. My friend is rock solid honest and I doubt the instructor is a liar. That being said, these things were experimental. I never said they were on the production line. ---
**Author:** ![weekend-warrior](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/weekend-warrior/32/26122_2.png) [@weekend-warrior](https://community.cartalk.com/u/weekend-warrior)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/54 "2021-08-10T21:12:46Z")
[In-car device monitors blood sugar for diabetic drivers (phys.org)](https://phys.org/news/2011-05-in-car-device-blood-sugar-diabetic.html) ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/55 "2021-08-10T21:42:49Z")
Medtronic is a rock solid Minnesota company too. ---
**Author:** ![Ralph-66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@Ralph-66](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Ralph-66)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 12:38am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/56 "2021-08-11T00:38:51Z")
What if we enforce the laws we have about DUII instead? ---
**Author:** ![old\_mopar\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/6bbea6/32.png) [@old\_mopar\_guy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/old_mopar_guy)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 1:48am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/57 "2021-08-11T01:48:50Z")
And that SHOULD affect your insurance rate. ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/58 "2021-08-11T14:48:20Z")
It’s not going to happen. The bill requires passive monitoring of alcohol levels. A breathalyzer that you blow into is active monitoring. Passive monitoring of only the driver is impossible. Sure, you could put alcohol sensors in the headliner, but how will they differentiate between a drunk driver and drunk passengers? And in fact the authors obviously knew this because right after the passive monitoring section is a section that says when the trans-sec determines it’s impossible, he/she can extend the deadline, and explain to congress how stupid this idea is. 😉 I’m guessing the MADD idiots got some congresscritter to refuse to sign on without an anti-DWI clause in there, so they stuck this in there to make them happy. It’s not going to happen because it can’t. The most that will come of this is that if the car detects that you’re weaving all over the place, it will pull over and stop. And I’m fine with that, because regardless of why you’re driving like an idiot, I’m happy with any reasonable measure to stop you from driving like an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![davepsinbox\_157004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@davepsinbox\_157004](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davepsinbox_157004)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/62 "2021-08-11T18:54:50Z")
> [@Ralph-66](#): > > What if we enforce the laws we have about DUII instead? So wait until someone drives impaired instead of trying to prevent it in the first place. Got it. ---
**Author:** ![pyrolord314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@pyrolord314](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pyrolord314)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 8:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501/63 "2021-08-11T20:49:16Z")
> [@shadowfax](#): > > Sure, you could put alcohol sensors in the headliner, but how will they differentiate between a drunk driver and drunk passengers? +1 or what about a sick passenger using an elixir based cough syrup (which also contains alcohol)?? [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501.md?page=2) [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this/178501.md?page=4)