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Who don't care who are the problem are not going to mend their ways because of this. People won't use them as it'll mean they have to buy another. What WOULD be useful would be pubs being given a free supply of these or being equipped with a proper breathalyser and just getting the tubes free and the customers being able to check themselves before driving. In most cases it'll be that a family waits another 30mins to and hour whilst daddy's pint wears off but in some cases in an evening it may be a good way to say to someone who has obviously had too much "If you think you're okay to drive, check and make sure". Often they will genuinely believe that they're okay and this could change their minds. Bars having them and places like newsagents selling the little one use things will mean people will pick them up and may make the difference between things like people going out to collect a takeaway or it being delivered. I think certainly having these things around will mean that they'll sell. At the moment what I've found available is set to the Frog's national limit and therefore is of little use to me so I won't buy it. I'll certain buy one or two if they're a couple of quid. Forcing this on people will mean they'll never use it as they'll see it as yet another government enforced cost of motoring. Make them available at a decent price and you'll find people use them. Hopefully that'll mean that the only drink drivers you have to deal with are the really stupid or really drunk ones who genuinely don't care. Not the otherwise completely law abiding man who went to take a cooked dinner round to his elderly mother and didn't realise that one glass of wine put him just over the limit.

Reason.

The French accident statistics were said to have a significant drink-driving problem. Their limit is also lower than ours which increases the likelihood that drivers could still be over the limit next morning. In that context perhaps this move is understandable and useful in raising awareness over there.

Sure, why not.

Let's also make it a no-excuses offence to not have the original of your license, V5C, insurance, reflective stickers on your helmet, reflective vest, spare glasses if you wear contacts, warning triangle, fire extinguisher, ban filtering, ban bikes over 8 years from towns, limit bikes to 100bhp and let Plod impose cash fines on the spot or seize your bike for anything that they accuse you of, without recourse to a judicial process.

If you're looking for ideas for adding new driving offences, please leave France well out of it.

Who are the................

....................43 idiots here who want a police state?

And before anybody asks, no, I wouldn't be happy if a member of my family was killed by a drunk driver/biker but this is the ever thickening thin end of the loony, PC, wedge.

The safety nutters won't be happy until all of our bikes are fitted with chips that send a signal to the police when we go 1 mph over the speed limit or jump an amber light.

Bit of a non-starter seeing as the police can arrest you for accessing your car if you are over the limit.