Cars that make you pass an alcohol test before they start. You breathe into this thing..

...which senses your? blood alcohol level from your breath. And if it's over the limit, the car won't start. Would you be in favor of the govt making these mandatory on all cars by the year 2012 or so? The govt did make seat belts mandatory. Sort of the same thing?
 
UCANTCME says that hyperventilation can alter the results by as much as 10%. Any idiot who would intentionally cause themselves to hyperventilate in order to start their car should be arrested for reckless driving. Hyperventilating while driving can cause the driver to pass out from a carbon dioxide overdose.

Due to severe emphysema I hyperventilate on a regular basis, and it's neither fun nor funny. It's nothing to play around with, suggest, or even try, just to beat a machine.
 
I don't necessarily support this so to speak, but I wouldn't have a problem with it if it were mandatory on all cars. It would obviously put the brakes on drunk driving.

Ideally, however, they should only be used as part of criminal punishment for drunk driving.
 
Personally I'm against it because I'm against any freedom being taken from me. Also all you need is a sober passenger. How are we going to locate it to make sure the driver is the only one who can blow in to it?
 
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