Ignition Interlock Device in Car
MADD is at it again, this time the goal is to put an ignition interlock device into every drunk driver’s car. A bill has been introduced to make such a law mandatory in every state.
They intend to do it the old fashioned way – by withholding federal highway money. This is the same insidious method that was used to make 0.08 blood-alcohol content the law in every state. MADD intends to use this method to compel states to require alcohol ignition interlocks for all convicted drunk driving offenders.
The threat of losing federal highway funds has proven to be a powerful inducement to pass increasingly draconian drunk driving laws. Recently, two U.S. senators, Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Tom Udall of New Mexico, joined MADD representatives Monday to announce their bill will use this tactic for ignition interlocks.
Accordingly to OHSonline:
Lautenberg wrote the law that lowered the legal blood-alcohol limit to 0.08 from 0.10 in all 50 states and also the law that set 21 as the legal minimum drinking age. He said U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James Oberstar, D-Minn., has included language to accomplish the bill’s goal in the transportation reauthorization bill. Lautenberg and Udall serve on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.
In passing the super drunk law, Michigan recently joined ten other states that currently have laws that require an ignition interlocks for all drunk driving offenders. The other states include Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Hawaii, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Utah, and Washington. Michigan’s law will go into effect on October 31, 2010.
For more information on ignition interlocks see:
- Drunk Driving Traffic Stops and Interlocks
- Will Ignition Interlocks End Drunk Driving?
- Ignition Interlocks – BAIID
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