Nonsense. So many people will bypass/disconnect/defeat them that any decrease would be far smaller.

In any case, the real story about traffic deaths is that the number has stayed at roughly same for a decade. Deaths actually peaked in '72 at 54,589. Driving is slowly getting safer, without silly devices and despite nannyish alarmism.

We're all going to die from something, at some time in our lives. If people don't want to die in auto accidents, then they shouldn't drive or even be passengers in automobiles.

The real problem is that the nanny-staters seem to think that they can abolish all causes of death if they just regulate everything into stasis, and so let's criminalize an ever increasing list of activies we don't like and so everything but legislate mandatory immortality. What I find disheartening is how many self-proclaimed conservatives buy into the same notions when they fit their prejudices.

Right and right.

Magic sobriety testers are not the answer. Dirt-balls drive older cars anyway, and mechanical devices may be overridden. Obedience to the law is the answer.

Some preach that any law with which one disagrees may be defied and discarded. The price to be paid for this position of narcissism is chaos and death.

Two remedies present themselves. First, an understanding that the law of the land is the Law is to be restored. Then for those whose "non serviam" surpasses all piety, fear must supply.

Automatic seizure and ultimate forfeiture of motor vehicles driven by intoxicated drivers, as intstrumentalities of crime will go far. A one-year mandatory minimum for the first offense will go farther.

Ah, but we don't want to go that to that extent, someone may say. And there is the point. Bereft of the will and confidence to enforce the law we must fall back on burdening the law-abiding: the gun-control mentality.

Right and right.

Magic sobriety testers are not the answer. Dirt-balls drive older cars anyway, and mechanical devices may be overridden. Obedience to the law is the answer.

Some preach that any law with which one disagrees may be defied and discarded. The price to be paid for this position of narcissism is chaos and death.

Two remedies present themselves. First, an understanding that the law of the land is the Law is to be restored. For those whose "non serviam" surpasses all piety, fear must supply.

Automatic seizure and ultimate forfeiture of motor vehicles driven by intoxicated drivers, as intstrumentalities of crime will go far. A one-year mandatory minimum for the first offense will go farther.

Ah, but we don't want to go that far, someone may say. And there is the point. Bereft of the will and confidence to enforce the law we must fall back on burdening the law-abiding: the gin-control mentality.

Don't let them.

Your life isn't yours to waste.

Yes, the reduction is all thanks to MADD, as will the next halving be.

I don't drink and neither does anyone else likely to be driving my car. In an emergency, I'd rather not have to worry about entering numbers on a keypad. It's ridiculous. If someone drinks and drives, let his license be revoked and his car confiscated. Just leave my car alone.

This is worse than those old PA ads that were all over the radio years back, "Lock your car, don't let a good boy go bad."

Those ads were so infuriating, it's amazing I didn't have an accident every time I heard one, I'd see red.

MADD? They've become what the WCTU and Carrie Nation only dreamed of becoming. Their all-purpose solution is to assume guilt without any means of asserting innocence.

Just buckle your damn seatbelt and you'll be fine.