Drunk Driving Tech Mandate: Millions of False Positives Ahead
A new congressional mandate for drunk driving tech in cars raises alarm. Expect millions of false positives and remote vehicle control, warns John Coogan.
Drunk driving could be a thing of the past
With John Coogan, Jordi Hays · Sunday, April 26, 2026
This episode explores a congressional mandate for advanced drunk driving prevention technology in new passenger vehicles. The hosts discuss the proposed systems, including breath sensing, fingerprint reading, and camera detection, while raising significant concerns about potential abuses, privacy implications, and the high number of false positives such systems could generate.