I think you are right, I hope they don’t push it in a half assed state.
Achieving the accuracy is not the major problem here, but keeping it accurate. You have to make it robust enough so it doesn’t fail at random (sensors in general are a bitch in this regard) and it has to hold a perfect calibration for long enough (a assume chemical detection sensor, which again, are a super-bitch regarding calibrations), while also making it at least a bit hard to bypass. The other problem is the privacy nightmare this can be, analyzing fluids or cameras pointing to your face… are they gonna sell this data to insurance companies (just as an example, it could be other companies, your employer…)? Of course they are!
The only thing I would expect from this is a lot of people pissed or worst because of malfunctions while all the drunktards stay on the road by simply filling a ballon before they start drinking.
Mother Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
Aaaand of course this is been pushed by some Puritan-Americans lol
Tldr I rant at hypothetical, you can safely skip this
If I have a sensor, it’s getting removed. If there’s a camera or some such thing connecting to anywhere, it’s either removed or I simply won’t buy that car. Anything mandated by law for the end-user is getting bypassed and removed until there’s some sort of inspection for it.
I don’t drink, at all. Never could stand the taste of alcohol. So anything mandated by law to make sure I’m not drinking and driving is simply an inconvenience, another barrier between a person and what is necessity to do anything in this country (no I don’t care that some people can personally get to your work, the store, and family with a 10 minute bus ride, that simply isn’t reality for anyone outside dense cities) and I’m pretty biased against government agencies raising the bar for things that mostly only affect poorer people.
A rich dude will never need to worry about replacing a bad sensor, or what if the broken sensor trips again and I can’t drive to work again.
The single mother of 3 in a rusting minivan, however, isn’t so lucky.
The technology will never be ready. The accuracy required for such a thing to not be universally despised is absurd.
I think you are right, I hope they don’t push it in a half assed state.
Achieving the accuracy is not the major problem here, but keeping it accurate. You have to make it robust enough so it doesn’t fail at random (sensors in general are a bitch in this regard) and it has to hold a perfect calibration for long enough (a assume chemical detection sensor, which again, are a super-bitch regarding calibrations), while also making it at least a bit hard to bypass. The other problem is the privacy nightmare this can be, analyzing fluids or cameras pointing to your face… are they gonna sell this data to insurance companies (just as an example, it could be other companies, your employer…)? Of course they are!
The only thing I would expect from this is a lot of people pissed or worst because of malfunctions while all the drunktards stay on the road by simply filling a ballon before they start drinking.
Aaaand of course this is been pushed by some Puritan-Americans lol
Tldr I rant at hypothetical, you can safely skip this
If I have a sensor, it’s getting removed. If there’s a camera or some such thing connecting to anywhere, it’s either removed or I simply won’t buy that car. Anything mandated by law for the end-user is getting bypassed and removed until there’s some sort of inspection for it.
I don’t drink, at all. Never could stand the taste of alcohol. So anything mandated by law to make sure I’m not drinking and driving is simply an inconvenience, another barrier between a person and what is necessity to do anything in this country (no I don’t care that some people can personally get to your work, the store, and family with a 10 minute bus ride, that simply isn’t reality for anyone outside dense cities) and I’m pretty biased against government agencies raising the bar for things that mostly only affect poorer people.
A rich dude will never need to worry about replacing a bad sensor, or what if the broken sensor trips again and I can’t drive to work again.
The single mother of 3 in a rusting minivan, however, isn’t so lucky.
But man will they be able to spend a whole bunch of money trying to get there…