{"id":3097,"date":"2022-07-19T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2022-07-11T20:02:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T00:02:27","slug":"breathalyzers-uh-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2022\/07\/breathalyzers-uh-oh\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathalyzers: Uh Oh."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/23\/business\/drunk-driving-interlock-crash.html\"><strong>The Unforeseen Dangers of a Device That Curbs Drunken Driving<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u201d (Published 2019, Updated 2021)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cThose checks, known in the industry as rolling retests, occur at random. They require the driver to lift a hand off the wheel, pick up the device and blow \u2014 hard \u2014 into its mouthpiece for several seconds.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So we take someone who\u2019s a demonstrably shitty driver and purposely distract them behind the wheel\u203d o_O How could <em>that<\/em> turn out poorly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But more importantly: is this solution the best approach? We love technological solutions to social problems, because then we get to avoid conflict (&#8220;It isn&#8217;t me, man; the machine says you must be punished.&#8221; &#x1f937;&#x200d;&#x2642;&#xfe0f; )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large\"><p>\u201cThe legislatures themselves have made this instruments God.\u00a0 Any time you put all your faith in technology, there\u2019s a chance you\u2019re gonna get burned.\u201d <\/p><cite>John Fusco, former president of the breath-test manufacturer National Patent<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Fusco interview\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pv-pR1ZDgEM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/03\/business\/breathalyzer-investigation-takeaways.html\"><strong>5 Reasons to Question Alcohol Breath Tests<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u201d (Published 2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Important to remember that cops aren\u2019t scientists, and lawyers aren\u2019t scientists, and judges aren\u2019t scientists, and juries are rarely full of scientists.\u00a0 Putting a \u201cscientific tool\u201d in their hands doesn\u2019t make them scientists, and doesn\u2019t guarantee precise, accurate, or \u201cscientific\u201d results. Even the best tool in fallible hands will fail (at least occasionally).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Unforeseen Dangers of a Device That Curbs Drunken Driving\u201d (Published 2019, Updated 2021): \u201cThose checks, known in the industry as rolling retests, occur at random. They require the driver to lift a hand off the wheel, pick up the device and blow \u2014 hard \u2014 into its mouthpiece for several seconds.\u201d So we take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2022\/07\/breathalyzers-uh-oh\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Breathalyzers: Uh Oh.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[784,785,50,782,783,232,41],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3099,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions\/3099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}