On 2019 Aug 31 20:03:00, you wrote to me:

 ak>>> I once said a clever thought about drunk drivers --
"The most stupid
 ak>>> thing on Earth is asking the arrested drunk driver why he sat behind
 ak>>> the wheel drunk." That's why no fines can stop killing
on roads by
 ak>>> drunk drivers. In the future cars will smell over the driver,
 ak>>> however.

 ML>> the future is already here... i know of numerous folks with drinking
 ML>> problems that have "blow'n'go" devices in their
vehicles... these are
 ML>> very similar to the breathalizers the gendarmes use... if the
 ML>> detected alcohol level is below the legal limit, the vehicle can be
 ML>> started and driven otherwise not...

 ak> It interesting, will a breath analyzer in a car work if I plug its
 ak> nose with a piece of cud? ;-)

nope and the vehicle won't start, either...

 ML>> before anyone can say something about getting someone else to blow in
 ML>> the detector, that has also seemingly been worked out so that it only
 ML>> works for those under these restrictions...

 ak> If there is no human control, theoretically you can use a clyster. Or
 ak> you can teach your dog to blow into the detector. ;)

i alluded to these types of bypasses being handled in my paragraph... the
detectors work in a specific fashion and my understanding is that the ones
used to lock out vehicles are somehow keyed to the person with the
restriction...

 ML>> i don't have to worry about this so i don't know any more... only
 ML>> that i've seen it live and in action...

 ak> Probably another thing from the future helps: a blood analyzer will be
 ak> installed inside of an implanted control chip -- the one that all
 ak> people will be obliged to have in their bodies. ;=)

or maybe synthahol as depicted in Star Trek ;)

)\/(ark

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would
set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave
them.
... Eat *it*? See, I can't even type the word!
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