They’re joking. Interkocks are more sophisticated than that. You’re not going to fool one with a balloon. You have to inhale before exhaling, and a camera records a video of you blowing to make sure there’s no funny business.
I’ve not seen one with a camera before but it would take multiple very large balloons, and a level of coordination that a drunk would not have.
You have to breathe out for a full 30s strong or it will error. It was suprisingly difficult. Then every 10 minutes while driving - it will beep and you have 2 minutes to blow into it or it flips out, and the car shuts off. You won’t be able to turn it back on without contacting someone.
Source: My buddy’s dad was an alcoholic. He’d have to go home early from playing so he could do the breathalyzer and ride along so his dad could take the car out anywhere. Sometimes he’d have to skip school to go to his dad’s work.
Just checked, and I can only last thirty seconds at a rather feeble rate. Apparently the device is for people who trained their lung capacity in the childhood.
I had a friend in high school who’s father was an alcoholic attorney, and he’d have his kids pass the breathalyzer for him every morning.
I actually bought a user 2001 S10 off them in 2004 with like 25k miles on it for only 3 grand because he’d keep rubbing along the side of in the driveway pulling in and out drunk, so it had a bunch of cosmetic damage that I didn’t care about at all.
He must’ve gotten lucky. The ones I’ve seen require you to blow every 10 minutes while driving. Dad would not have gotten all the way to work these days.
Holy crap lol i hope people dont do that
They’re joking. Interkocks are more sophisticated than that. You’re not going to fool one with a balloon. You have to inhale before exhaling, and a camera records a video of you blowing to make sure there’s no funny business.
I’ve not seen one with a camera before but it would take multiple very large balloons, and a level of coordination that a drunk would not have.
You have to breathe out for a full 30s strong or it will error. It was suprisingly difficult. Then every 10 minutes while driving - it will beep and you have 2 minutes to blow into it or it flips out, and the car shuts off. You won’t be able to turn it back on without contacting someone.
Source: My buddy’s dad was an alcoholic. He’d have to go home early from playing so he could do the breathalyzer and ride along so his dad could take the car out anywhere. Sometimes he’d have to skip school to go to his dad’s work.
Actually it’s fucked up thinking about it now…
Just checked, and I can only last thirty seconds at a rather feeble rate. Apparently the device is for people who trained their lung capacity in the childhood.
I had a friend in high school who’s father was an alcoholic attorney, and he’d have his kids pass the breathalyzer for him every morning.
I actually bought a user 2001 S10 off them in 2004 with like 25k miles on it for only 3 grand because he’d keep rubbing along the side of in the driveway pulling in and out drunk, so it had a bunch of cosmetic damage that I didn’t care about at all.
I drove that truck for 11 years.
He must’ve gotten lucky. The ones I’ve seen require you to blow every 10 minutes while driving. Dad would not have gotten all the way to work these days.
That’s the best kind of S-10
It was so scraped up people probably assumed it was a Dakota.