Dumb Idea of the Week
A new smartphone app warns people where DWI Checkpoints are located. Yes, that is exactly what we need. A drunk searching their iPhone when driving to avoid a DWI Checkpoint. Major FAIL!
Hey – Here’s a better idea.
Why don’t they create an app that shows your blood alcohol level and if you are over the legal limit disable your car from starting?
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i like your idea katie 🙂 greaaat idea 🙂
1) You are not legally obligated to go through DWI checkpoints.
2) There are legitimate reasons to avoid them.
3) DWI check points don’t work. Search on Google for ‘drunk driving checkpoints efficacy’
You can’t impose sanctions, until AFTER some commits a crime. So someone who hasn’t been convicted can’t be forced to employ an ignition interlock. Ignition interlock are mechanical and prone to failure. How would it be if you tried to start your car to take your child to the hospital and your car won’t start because it thinks you are drunk? Or you stop your car in the middle of nowhere and it won’t start?
It would be great if people would voluntarily comply. Until then, the most effective way to curtail DWI is education. Once drunk driving, like smoking, becomes socially unacceptable people driving drunk will taper off.
Least you think I am a drunk driving apologist, I’m not. I spent the better part of my life scraping drunks off the roads. I am a Mobile Intensive Care Paramedic and I have seen the tragedy of abuse of alcohol. I believe we all would be better if alcohol could be made to disappear. But, we tried that. It was an unparalleled disaster.
Anyway, the iPhone hasn’t developed to the point it can discern blood alcohol levels. It, probably, never will.
Nice idea, though…
Interesting response…However, I still think the idea of an app that tells you where DWI checkpoints are located is dumb. If I am looking at that app, as a reasonable person, I am looking for it to avoid the police for one reason or another. I would not have to avoid the police if I have not done something wrong. I would drive through any check point, at any time. Maybe others don’t feel the same, but I do.
I assume the iPhone or any other phone may not have the capability of checking your BAC, but it was actually sarcastic in nature really. The point is, the app is dumb and it would be great to keep the drunk drivers off the road.