The only reason this sort of thing gets headlines is MADD, a taxpayer funded non-profit, uses those free tax dollars to publicize a non-existent problem.
Speed and/or inattentive drivers kill over 90% of the time. The focus is not ont he ball because of the 300 lb prohibition gorilla lobbying legislators.
Hence you have IJ falling into the frey as another pro-MADD outlet. Pro-MADD with zero research on the bad laws being pushed.
So drunk driving isn’t really a problem? What a maroon. The MADD haters club strikes again. No, I am not in MADD and don’t even know one of their members. I had an alcoholic father who drove drunk for 50 year. I wish someone had taken his license away before he fell asleep, drove off the road and killed his younger brother. I count myself and my sisters lucky he didn’t kill us. Why is it so hard to say drunks shouldn’t be driving? I don’t drink, but I don’t care if others do, unless they have impaired judgement behind the wheel.
Expanding the program to cell phones, etc. is a great idea. How about putting pictures of other cars, people, etc. so the kids realize exactly WHAT they may hit/kill while driving distracted (for whatever reason).
Nobody, this guy seems to pop up every time there’s something about alcohol and I never understand why. I’ll worry about prohibition when they start taking away my right to imbibe (granted one I don’t exercise, but one I’d like to keep nonetheless). In the meantime we should be trying to keep drunks from behind the wheel and we should be teaching people at a young age what could happen.
I tried a pair of the “drunk goggles” at a safety convention once. I did pretty dang good, it took a BAC of over .10 in the dark for me to start “acting impaired” but I know that there is a difference between experiencing it stone-cold sober with the aid of a tool and experiencing the real thing. It was enough to reaffirm my choice to never drink and drive. Scary stuff.
What an elaborate bunch of crap. Just ahve a few beers then do the course. In real life your car does not shake around – This is just pure fantasy and does not relate to rea life.
You want to know what its like, just have a few drinks.
The truth is, most people would probably do the course just fine. So they have to invent some stupid crap where your car shakes around.
I remember when I was in college and did drink. I had a few beers and drove back 15 miles to the dorm on snowy roads. I was not in total control of the vehicle and ended up in somebody’s yard. I was lucky and nothing was hurt. A person who has alcohol in their system is not in control. Tough enough to drive these days without slow reaction time.
GEICO has been promoting issues that are directed at teens. they even have a video of what teens are doing in the car.
the driving of the golf cart, do those goggles come in .08, .1, .2, .3 visually impaired? during this event are they told also how alchohol is processed in your system. an event like this needs to see the complete picture – including a court case with the sentencing. you might want to include the costs associated with the event – like insurance, medical bills of both parties (victim and responsible party). sr22 and what it does for them.
I believe the shaking car is the result of the erratic maneuvers made by the driver that is using goggles to simulate the effect of alcohol on the driver’s judgment and response time.
And let’s face it, we can talk to our kids until we are blue in the face, but will they hear us? Some maybe, some no; most of the time they have to “see it to believe it”. How often do you hear us “adults” refer to the one (or more) time (s) we did drink and get behind the wheel and by some miracle didn’t wreck?(look at the comments already posted). So now age, wisdom and the experience of being Sh*t-faced behind the wheel makes us realize we were in no condition to be driving, thank the heavens nothing bad happened, and vow never to make that mistake again.
We may not be able to bestow age and wisdom on our teens, but maybe, just maybe the experience, even if simulated, will stop someone from getting behind the wheel and preventing something tragic from happening. I’m all for it.
Maybe this ought to be expanded to driving while on the phone, driving while eating a big mac and driving while texting.
The only reason this sort of thing gets headlines is MADD, a taxpayer funded non-profit, uses those free tax dollars to publicize a non-existent problem.
Speed and/or inattentive drivers kill over 90% of the time. The focus is not ont he ball because of the 300 lb prohibition gorilla lobbying legislators.
Hence you have IJ falling into the frey as another pro-MADD outlet. Pro-MADD with zero research on the bad laws being pushed.
“Five years ago, Moser started the SCAT club…”
(insert poop joke here)
So drunk driving isn’t really a problem? What a maroon. The MADD haters club strikes again. No, I am not in MADD and don’t even know one of their members. I had an alcoholic father who drove drunk for 50 year. I wish someone had taken his license away before he fell asleep, drove off the road and killed his younger brother. I count myself and my sisters lucky he didn’t kill us. Why is it so hard to say drunks shouldn’t be driving? I don’t drink, but I don’t care if others do, unless they have impaired judgement behind the wheel.
Expanding the program to cell phones, etc. is a great idea. How about putting pictures of other cars, people, etc. so the kids realize exactly WHAT they may hit/kill while driving distracted (for whatever reason).
Nobody, this guy seems to pop up every time there’s something about alcohol and I never understand why. I’ll worry about prohibition when they start taking away my right to imbibe (granted one I don’t exercise, but one I’d like to keep nonetheless). In the meantime we should be trying to keep drunks from behind the wheel and we should be teaching people at a young age what could happen.
I tried a pair of the “drunk goggles” at a safety convention once. I did pretty dang good, it took a BAC of over .10 in the dark for me to start “acting impaired” but I know that there is a difference between experiencing it stone-cold sober with the aid of a tool and experiencing the real thing. It was enough to reaffirm my choice to never drink and drive. Scary stuff.
What an elaborate bunch of crap. Just ahve a few beers then do the course. In real life your car does not shake around – This is just pure fantasy and does not relate to rea life.
You want to know what its like, just have a few drinks.
The truth is, most people would probably do the course just fine. So they have to invent some stupid crap where your car shakes around.
When the information is dull – such as drunk driving information – there are two ways to keeps people’s attenion: make it funny or scare them.
Since joking would probably send the wrong message I’m all for scaring them with a car that shakes and rattles if it drives home the right message.
Yea but it would only drive home the message to someone whose never had a sip of alcohol – To most people they would know it was a stupid gimmick!!!
Brought to you by the same type of people that told me in health class when I was 13 that marajuana would kill me!!
You lose all respect and trust when you find out you were lied to.
I remember when I was in college and did drink. I had a few beers and drove back 15 miles to the dorm on snowy roads. I was not in total control of the vehicle and ended up in somebody’s yard. I was lucky and nothing was hurt. A person who has alcohol in their system is not in control. Tough enough to drive these days without slow reaction time.
GEICO has been promoting issues that are directed at teens. they even have a video of what teens are doing in the car.
the driving of the golf cart, do those goggles come in .08, .1, .2, .3 visually impaired? during this event are they told also how alchohol is processed in your system. an event like this needs to see the complete picture – including a court case with the sentencing. you might want to include the costs associated with the event – like insurance, medical bills of both parties (victim and responsible party). sr22 and what it does for them.
I believe the shaking car is the result of the erratic maneuvers made by the driver that is using goggles to simulate the effect of alcohol on the driver’s judgment and response time.
And let’s face it, we can talk to our kids until we are blue in the face, but will they hear us? Some maybe, some no; most of the time they have to “see it to believe it”. How often do you hear us “adults” refer to the one (or more) time (s) we did drink and get behind the wheel and by some miracle didn’t wreck?(look at the comments already posted). So now age, wisdom and the experience of being Sh*t-faced behind the wheel makes us realize we were in no condition to be driving, thank the heavens nothing bad happened, and vow never to make that mistake again.
We may not be able to bestow age and wisdom on our teens, but maybe, just maybe the experience, even if simulated, will stop someone from getting behind the wheel and preventing something tragic from happening. I’m all for it.