Interesting news from Virginia

[Professor Fate]

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I can *sort of* understand the thought process behind it, although I also see it as a foot in the door for more regulation and wider use than the original target group.
People will most likely just find a way around it, just as habitual DUI offenders find ways around the "sniffer" installed in their cars.
If they want to do something productive and proactive, get people off their cell phones- if a phone can have an "airplane" mode, it can easily have an "auto" mode that shuts down phone and texting abilities while the ignition is on.

 

[str12-340]

I just hope that this device is a plug in model that requires new car wiring to work.

 

[Cuda Al]

I get it but what about passenger phones, I'm not saying you need to regulate passengers but how are they to know if a phone belongs to the driver or a passenger?


Alan

 

[harrisonm]

I'm against it. If somebody has a history of speeding, take away their license. Screwing around with the electrical and throttle linkage on somebody's car will NOT end well. What happens when you have a car that is under warranty towed to the dealer because it won't start and the dealer says it was the wiring on the speed limiter? The dealer is going to refuse to fix it. Or, what happens when the aftermarket fails either at full throttle of idle?

 

[Killer6]

Idiotic....

 

[RAT ROD AL]

And disable them in the grocery store !!!!!

 

[WV64Signet]

Virginia instituted mandatory interlock for impaired driver stops back in January.

250' makes a big difference

WBGV

 

[JDMopar]

It would have to work thru the OBD2 port. From what I read the last few days, there are 4 or 5 states that are going to do this. SUPPOSEDLY it is only for habitual speeders caught at over 100 mph on multiple stops. The states that plan to do it are the same states that think that banning guns is better than making examples out of one idiot that commits a horrific crime.