Oh Great, Now Your Smartphone Can Tell If You’re Drunk

[MovingForward2050]

"Suffoletto envisions a future smartphone feature that can alert those who are impaired and make sure they’re protected from “high-risk events like driving, interpersonal violence and unprotected sexual encounters.”

As much as I am against drunk driving and the harm it causes, I don't like the idea of our smart phones being used to further snitch on us to Big Brother...

Oh great, now your smartphone can tell if you're drunk

"We have powerful sensors we carry around with us wherever we go. We need to learn how to use them to best serve public health."

futurism.com

 

[Johnny Rico]

Just wait until you stub your toe and hobble to your car and five police cars surround you on suspicion of DUI. Doesn't matter if you're stone sober if they put you through the test you will fail.

 

[scotian]

I just slammed 8 beers watching the Nucks beat the Blues and took a dirt road back home so as to avoid the Mounties and my cell didn’t even know, what a stupid phone

 

[MovingForward2050]

I just slammed 8 beers watching the Nucks beat the Blues and took a dirt road back home so as to avoid the Mounties and my cell didn’t even know, what a stupid phone

Give it five or ten years......

 

[EndlessGravity]

I've watched people get behind the wheel with their wives begging them not to and we're suppose to believe a cellphone alert will stop anyone?

 

[scotian]

Boozin’ and cruisin’ in 2020, leave the cell at home. Just kidding guys, don’t drink and drive on public roads, leave that for the woods and watch out for trees.