• @CADmonkey
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    1611 months ago

    Every time something like this pops up, I’m reminded of a line from a silly book I read as a kid:

    “When technology advances, the technology to outsmart it advances too.”

    The people making these regulations don’t understand car people. That cute little mandatory device will be defeated, and a workaround will be sold, within the first year. The same thing happened with diesel trucks - EPA mandated emissions controls were built in the sloppiest possible fashion by engine manufacturers, and when these expensive trucks started needing thousands of dollars of work with fewer than 100,000 miles, people started disabling the emissions controls.

    The same thing will happen with this regulation. It will be implemented in the cheapest, most failure prone way possible to save Ford or whoever $5 per unit. Drivers will start having problems with their whiz-bang fancy electronic DUI detector bricking their car, and boom, now there’s a market for disabling or removing the devices.

    Also, just to attract more downvotes - there doesn’t seem to be any similar regulation being pushed for motorcycles. Consider a Goldwing instead of an Accord?

    • @surewhynotlem
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      511 months ago

      Duct tape over the sensors. This one isn’t even hard.

        • Echo Dot
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          711 months ago

          Just leave the engine running when I go to the bar. If it’s already running then I don’t have a problem right?? Ha.

          • @[email protected]
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            111 months ago

            Don’t even need to go to the bar. Just get drunk while driving around the neighborhood until you pass out.

        • @CADmonkey
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          511 months ago

          Wire around it. Still not hard.

      • @CADmonkey
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        611 months ago

        Sure. Just like the diesel modification wankers were pursued by the law. It didn’t stop them either.

    • @[email protected]
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      011 months ago

      A motorcycle has a higher chance of killing its rider rather than bystanders, when compared to cars.

      • Echo Dot
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        211 months ago

        I still won’t want to be hit by one though. I’ve been hit by a cyclist and that hurt enough.

        • @[email protected]
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          111 months ago

          Of course, yes. I’m just explaining why there’s more political motivation to not be hit by a car than a motorcycle.