Good job. You just caused law enforcement to ignore emitters from all cabs, 
government, and police vehicles.

My guess is that the unit will perform a self-check and emit a "broken" signal 
instead of "drunk". Maybe the police will only pull over "broken" vehicles not 
listed above, knowing that broken ones from average citizens are far likelier 
to have been sabotaged.

Quoting Sunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Screw that - just buy a few thousand of these little devices, disable them
> so that they're always transmitting "drunk driver" and install them in
> politicians' cars all over DC (make sure you install'em in cop
> cars too.)  You can also leave them in cabs.
> 
> They'll be banned immediately.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > A tiny fuel cell that detects the alcoholic breath of a drink-driver and
> calls
> > the police has been developed by a team of engineers at Texas Christian
> > University. A pump draws air in from the passenger cabin, a platinum
> catalyst
> > converts any alcohol to acetic acid, which then produces a current
> > proportional to the concentration of alcohol in the air. A chip analyses
> the
> > data, and if it is too high, turns on a wireless transmitter that calls
> the
> > police.
> 
> 


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