No, actually that was my point, that you could do ignition interlocks for about what the registry bureaucracy would cost. At a wild guess, anyway. As for charging them, then you run into the whole issue of who can pay and who can't. Ignition interlocks, too, have been used mostly if not entirely on the basis that the offender has to pay for it. Often they can't, or won't, and that's a big part of why they never "caught on," as you put it. Of course I tend to regard drunk driving as a social problem, meaning everyone's problem not just the drunk driver's problem, meaning everybody ought to be willing to chip in to solve it. If the ignition interlocks were a federal safety mandate, like seat belts, air bags, and a million other things, the small incremental cost would be shared by everyone, and drunk driving would be history. If your main priority is to punish evildoers, then you will prefer a different solution. hugzu ;-p |