NHTSA's Voluntary Roadside Blood-And-Saliva Survey Heads To Seattle With A Much Greater Emphasis On 'Voluntary' | Techdirt
OTOH, in WA a "traffic checkpoint" is only legal if it stops every single vehicle passing through it. I can't see doing that to ask people to voluntarily submit to a breathalyser and a blood draw.
And I really doubt people will believe them when they say that no identifying information, including license plate numbers, will be collected.
By the way, a few years ago WA started requiring us to get new plates every 7 years, because older ones aren't readable by traffic cameras.
Although it's already been burned twice for its intrusive, not-mandatory-but-it-sure-looks-that-way "roadside surveys," the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) isn't letting a lot of bad press, a lawsuit and a Congressional investigation slow down its blood-and-saliva collections. After two straight debacles (Texas and Pennsylvania), the NHTSA is headed to Seattle in hopes of gauging the effects of newly-legal weed on the driving population.I confess that part of me sees the point of seeing if Washingtonian hipsters are driving while baked, what with weed being legal here now, but still...
OTOH, in WA a "traffic checkpoint" is only legal if it stops every single vehicle passing through it. I can't see doing that to ask people to voluntarily submit to a breathalyser and a blood draw.
And I really doubt people will believe them when they say that no identifying information, including license plate numbers, will be collected.
By the way, a few years ago WA started requiring us to get new plates every 7 years, because older ones aren't readable by traffic cameras.
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When do they start installi0ng RFID chips in the license plates?
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