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Thursday 5 March 2009

The Next Big Thing

Over at TECHLifePost, my column this week is My Mother-In-Law, the Car.

Too bad I wrote it before this newsitem came in, from the ABC:
It will soon be mandatory for serious drink driving offenders to have alcohol interlock devices fitted to their vehicles in South Australia.

Legislation has passed the SA Parliament providing for a disqualification period for drink drivers, then the fitting of a device to their car for the same duration as their disqualification.

If the drivers blow any blood alcohol reading their car will not start.
Sometimes the future starts happening sooner than you expect.
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5 comments:

  1. SnoopyTheGoonFriday, March 06, 2009 12:40:00 am

    Wouldn't a plastic tube from one's mouth fitted through the window of one's car make the gizmo ineffective?

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  2. ChristineFriday, March 06, 2009 5:08:00 am

    about time.

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  3. ChristineFriday, March 06, 2009 5:10:00 am

    Now the next step... sober drivers who drive like idiots and swerve in and out at 160km/hr and put the rest of us at risk should be permenently impounded.
    The drivers, not the car.

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  4. LaserlightFriday, March 06, 2009 2:29:00 pm

    Sounds like an opportunity for someone to develop Fresh Breath, a pocket sized filter or other thingy which will defeat this. I'm not at all in favor of drunk drivers, I'm just pointed out a market waiting to happen.

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  5. UnknownSaturday, March 07, 2009 6:00:00 am

    These things have been around for some time now over here...

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