{"id":938,"date":"2015-01-26T09:34:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T14:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.alanporter.com\/?p=938"},"modified":"2015-01-26T09:34:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T14:34:16","slug":"car-sobriety-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/car-sobriety-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"idea: car sobriety switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is part of a series I have been thinking about for a long time.  When I have a fleeting thought about some neat idea, I should publish it to ensure that it can not be patented later.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I read an article about a drunk driver that killed a motorcyclist.  I know there are companies that make sobriety tests that tie into vehicle ignition systems.  Some courts order offenders to have these installed.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it would make sense to use the car&#8217;s existing controls (buttons on the steering wheel) and displays to run a reaction-time test that has to be passed before the car can be started.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this would be annoying.  So maybe the car could be configured (via web page?) to require this test only at certain times.  I log into car.com and set it to require a sobriety test to be started between 10pm and 4am.  It could provide options if I fail.  Say, after two failures, the car could phone a friend, or it could (via a service like OnStar) call a cab to my location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part of a series I have been thinking about for a long time. When I have a fleeting thought about some neat idea, I should publish it to ensure that it can not be patented later. This morning I read an article about a drunk driver that killed a motorcyclist. I know there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prior-art","count-0","even alt","author-alan","last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}