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> I think this bill is a good idea and a good safety measure

I’m curious: Do you also think that automakers can produce good drunk driver detection and ship it in a couple years?

Are you willing to have a car that some times false positive flags you as drunk and shuts down?

Or are you assuming the technology is so perfect that it can’t possibly ever apply to you?

well all tech is imperfect, you can't have perfect tech or anything that works 100% of the time. The question is what is the false positive rate. If getting a false positive or break in the tech once a year or less dramatically reduces drunk driving, it's worth it to me. We already have sensors that help cars release less pollutants which can sometimes fail and cause the car not to drive properly. I don't see why this tech should be treated any different

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