it is getting harder to be responsible

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Originally Posted by nang3

haha i find it quite ironic that in order for the cops to successfully do their job - which involves breath testing and catching drink drivers - they are not supposed to breath test someone who is requesting a test in order to help them achieve thier goal of keeping Drink drivers off the road in the 1st place.....
maybe this policy is because if they arent tested, then drive then get done it means more $$$ revenue than if they were tested and decided not to drive due to their reading and therefore there was no offence to extact revenue from??
but that could just be the cynic in me talking because we all know that safety is a distant second behind revenue in all things govt related.

Or it could be because due to the way the body clears alcohol and the fact that a low reading at one time may increase to a high reading at another time, such testing would give motorists a false sense of security.


Such testing causes too many complications such as false sense of security, corruption opportunities and liability issues for the police. All this when responsibility and caution on behalf of the driver is much more effective.

A vast majority of the driving public is able to work out when they are safe to drive or not without having to be checked by the police, anyone that can't achieve this skill should not be driving, simple.

If you can't, what are you going to do when there are no cops around?