Comment Re:"Novel solution"? (Score 1) 706
For the same reason you have to have a horn and seat belt and all that other crap in your car. Because some people will use it.,
I live in a state where I don't have to wear a seat belt, have a horn or even working turn signals, those riding motorcycles don't have to wear helmets and those learning to drive don't need a permit. The state road mortality rate is significantly lower than the national average (6th lowest) so your assertion that these rules have an impact on mortality rates is provably false.
People wear seat belts because it's safe to not because the law tells them they have to, over regulation acts as a revenue measure and makes it seem like our political masters are doing something worthwhile when they are treating us like children. I am quite capable of putting on my seatbelt without being told to and the idiot who doesn't deserves precisely what he gets.
Regulations such as this seek to penalize everyone at the expense of a minority who are idiots (it doesn't matter if that expense is $2 or $2000) and surprisingly those who will drive drunk will do so irrespective of what a breathalyzer tells them so the measure will be entirely ineffective anyway.
Its none of your, or anyone else's, business what I have in my car or what I have had to drink unless I am driving dangerously.