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I'm about to say something that can be read as me supporting this shit, and I do not.
However.
Driving fatigued is about as unsafe as driving drunk. Assuming you are actually fatigued.
There was a time in the past when we allowed people to actively drink and drive.
I think - for the most part - not allowing that was a good idea.
IN THEORY preventing people from driving fatigued is not a bad idea.
IN PRACTICE we all know it won't be as simple as that.
But the basic idea itself is… not all bad. It's a pity we know it'll go to shit.
Fuck off with your nuanced take. We're here to be irrational and fire off unwarranted gripes!
I want my car to make hot coffee and pour it in my lap every morning on the way to work!
But you can just go to McDonald's for that. :)
But can I trigger it via my home doorbell using a Home Assistant integration?
I mean..... give it a few more years and quite possibly. lol
Congratulations! Someone is at your door!Well we're going to have to figure out something for all the people who take a couple hours to get their brains into gear in the morning if you want to stop that.
Yes indeed. I don't think it'll be easy at all. Trying to stop intoxicated driving is difficult enough, and that's usually driving that happens "after hours". So this would be ten times more difficult.
I suppose, in theory, most of the time forcing the use of some sort of alternate transportation would work, although we'd have to figure out how to make it cheaper. We often drink close to where we live, and work far from where we live.
If it was up to me, I'd delay this further and do more research and get more smart people coming up with ideas on how to solve these problems, because it would be worth trying to fix. But then again, there are so many problems we should be tackling, this is a relatively minor one.....