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No more drunk driving? US to force carmakers to adopt life-saving tech by 2024
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2023
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And when the sensor fails, your car is a brick. Gee. I wonder what the markup on replacement sensors is gonna be. I wonder how intentionally failure-prone the sensor is gonna be too.
Even worse, let's say you are having a weather based emergency like what happened in Texas last winter... And the winter before and will probably happen again this winter... You've hooked up your vehicle as an emergency generator. But you can't turn it on because of this sensor.
You're not even trying to drive, you're just trying to get some power to your HVAC system so you don't freeze to death.
Sure, that's just one example and it doesn't happen every day, but this thing could prevent successful outcomes in multiple emergency situations.
We're better off investing in proper public transit rather than this shit.
Investing in public transit may accidentally help the poors, and they can't have that upon their conscience.
My bad, I'll try to think of a more capitalist friendly solution
I know, public transport but a bus ticket is like $45 and there's a TV screen blaring ads that you all the time. Also, the entire thing is built into a Faraday cage so you can't use cellular data but they do sell Wi-Fi access.
Wait, your alternator can't make enough power at idle to power a whole furnace.... did you actually do that?
I haven't personally done this, but I'm more referring to the new tech that Ford is putting out for its f150 lightning (given the article was referring to new cars, I figured that's fair game). You can use the truck as a battery back up for your home, since it's an EV you don't have to worry about idle and alternators.
It wouldn't be able to do a big house's heating, but a small efficient heat pump would likely be fine.
Quick edit: I'm an idiot, the onboard controller in the truck automatically switches.
The f150 lightning doesn't have to be on to provide power, it comes from the bed of the truck at all times, no breathalyzer would be needed for that scenario.
I didn't even realize the F-150 was electric. Or is there just an electric variant?
It's specifically the f-150 lightning
Saw the edit, not an idiot at all, I only happened to have watched a YouTube on it when it came out, otherwise I wouldn't have known it even had a plug back there.
I’d like to know how the sensor will ensure the driver is sober when they’re the responsible designated driver trying to bring home a carload full of plastered friends… I have at least one friend that I know would think it’s hilarious (at the time) if he was a drunk passenger and could make the car stop by breathing on the driver etc.
A camera could focus on the drivers seat, but I feel like that would be lousy at this sort of thing… Is the driver drunk, is he shivering because it’s cold out? Does he have a cold, or even just a lazy eye or suffer from tremors of some sort?
Any sort of breath or touch sensor is going to need to be smart enough to distinguish between driver & passengers. And if it’s a touch sensor in the steering wheel does that mean no more gloves on a cold winter day?
You can guarantee it'll be the lowest quality camera possible. Won't work in anything other than direct sunlight, until probably require you to take your glasses off if you wear them.