...and new technologies that will enable a steering wheel to detect blood alcohol content through a driver's skin are on the horizon.
Then you just have to connect them all to GPS and a built in calling system to alert the local police! Technology that already exists!
I have never had a single problem with DUI. I live in an area where lots of idiots drive through to go to Casinos (which are banned because of the crime they encourage in most states, yet allowed through loopholes everywhere to exist on reservations). I find it horrendous to have to deal with tons of drunk drivers on mountain roads because they are hopping from illegal place to illegal place drinking at each and driving to the next. Gambling creates tons of state revenue when allowed legaly but even government realize it creates desperation, crime, etc and have banned it in most states in spite of the high tax revenue created. Ironicly I still deal with the crime and the drunk drivers because of the loophole and I don't enjoy or want to partake in the loophole of the Casinos.
Yet even with all of this I realize the enroachment on civil liberties being perpetrated under the guise of protection when you deny rights to any 'minority' you are able to single out legaly. If it makes sense for DUI offenders to be tracked with GPS, have thier body fluids tested by thier car and ankle monitors etc..if it is okay to release sexual predators but then deny them rights, red flag them to everyone and GPS track them etc, eventualy people say hey it works for them lets do it to all felons. Then they will say "it 'works' for the felons lets require it for people that have high security clearances or work in sensative positions, or who desire certain 'privelidges' (like driving is eventualy considered). Next your monitoring people that want to buy dangerous items like guns, or who have access to nuclear materials, drug making materials, chemicals deemed potentialy dangerous,tools considered to have apotential use to make something dangeorus, and other 'potentialy dangerous' people that might require tracking to safegaurd us all, and paying for all this very expensive government with more taxes. Once the institutions are created who they oversee can be expanded, your best defense against them is to fight thier creation or denial of rights from the start before your rights are the ones on the front lines. Creating the agency and applying the technology is the hardest legal part, expanding thier authority is not.
Anything allowed to be applied to one segment of society under the guise of safety is eventualy expanded to larger and larger segments of society because 'it works'. We become a society of numbers under constant survelience about the safety of the masses, not the freedoms, rights, or liberties of the people that make up those masses ( or even thier individual safety). This is what is happening in the UK and other places. But hey I mean "if you have nothign to hide" then it doesn't matter right? What about when laws are later changed that make something normal illegal? As long as "you have nothing to hide".
The only way to safegaurd the rights given to us in the constitution is to insure everyone is treated equaly and fair even if it makes dealing with those citizens that pose problems a little more difficult. Even if they are people or groups that do things you despise and you hate or dislike them or what they have done. Everyone can be divided and conquered according to some criteria.
If only Stalin had been born into a world with modern technology...
he would keep us all safe
training children in schools to monitor and report thier parents would have been unnecessary
If only Hitler had been born into a world with modern technology...
finding every last Jew would have been easily accomplished
anyone not seen as ideal geneticly would have been cut from the gene pool using DNA analysis