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Toyota's Drunk Driving Ads Put Everything On Wheels

Though we sort of question the effectiveness of clever advertising as a way to combat drunk driving (at the end of the day it comes down to good friends and personal responsibility), we have to give Toyota credit for commissioning the "Everything on Wheels" campaign. Developed by Saatchi & Saatchi, the ad makes a nod to the fact that when you're drunk everything appears to be moving as if on wheels. All of the photoshops are from the point of view of the driver, hinting at the danger ahead.

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11:20 AM on Wed May 28 2008
By Matt Hardigree
2,722 views, 34 comments

Latest by Volvo144: Wait. If I am on wheels while driving, and everything else is on wheels when I'm driving drunk, doesn't that mean we're living in a world of wheels? What if I pop a wheelie? What about Wheelie and the Chopper more »

gaming

MADD Upset Over Drunk Driving In GTA4

For those that haven't turned on a television or viewed any other website in the past 48 hours, the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto IV was released to the masses. Like previous GTA's, driving is a huge part of the gameplay, but this version even includes drunk driving, which makes the folks at MADD a touch unhappy. More »

5:00 PM on Fri May 2 2008
By Travis Hudson
5,577 views, 59 comments

offbeat news

In Belarus, Police Make Road Block Out of You!

Under orders to stop a drunk driver at all costs, police officers in Belarus stopped four civilian cars and ordered them to form a line across the road — acting as a roadblock. As brilliant a plan as this is, it failed to take into consideration that the drunk driver would be crashing into the makeshift barrier, placing six people including a child in harms way. Thankfully, after the inevitable crash, all of the unlucky drivers were fine and the drunk was caught and is now recovering in the hospital. We're wondering if those Belarussian cops were drunk themselves when they came up with this plan. [Russia Today]

9:20 AM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
852 views, 16 comments

Latest by NovaloadMissesPolar: So...the cops got tired of running and out of breath? Because if they'd had cars, this doesn't make sense. Oh, wait. more »

offbeat news

Meet Bob Castle - Master Of The DUI

Bob Castle gets plastered on Aftershock cinnamon schnapps and then gets arrested for DUI. This is his lot in life, his calling. We hate to make light of someone putting others at risk with their irresponsible behavior, but come on, 16 DUI's and he's only 38? And who drinks the schnapster and admits to it? Castle is quoted as saying he doesn't have a drinking problem, he has a driving problem, we say you've got both buddy. Actually, at the moment he has neither. A Seattle judge threw the book at him on this 16th conviction (it took until now?) and he's going away for a year in the slammer. We'll put a dollar bet down that says he learns how to make prison wine inside a week. [Seattle Weekly]

4:20 PM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
1,287 views, 37 comments

Latest by itswemy: This loser must know the alphabet backwards by now... more »

offbeat news

Drunk Cop Naps In Squad Car... In An Intersection

Soberness is so over-rated, especially if you were dealing with 100,000 drunken morons last Saturday at the Texas Motor Speedway. This had to be the conclusion drawn by Fort Worth Police Officer Clinton Wyatt after spending his day on duty there. So why not knock back a few when your shift ends at six? And a couple more? And a couple more? No problem. Just don't get into your marked cruiser and drive anywhere, that's not smart . And were you do that, it certainly wouldn't be smart to fall asleep at a major signaled intersection — in the middle of the road — where at 3:49 AM another officer arrests you for drunk driving. At least Officer McDrinky didn't pull a Michael McDowell. [Star-Telegram]

1:30 PM on Wed Apr 9 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
1,160 views, 15 comments

Latest by theeastbaykid: @Skunky: That was a Santa Clara County Sheriff. more »

news

Tastes Like Chicken? Or Tastes Like Sleepy Drivers?

Tastes like chicken. You know the hidebound old adage well, and maybe even have humorously offered it in response to sampling extremely vile or creepy food. Now check this out. The brainiacs at Stanford University have used that saying to essentially describe the effects of sleepy driving. Confused yet? Well, you know how you'll eat a mystery meat at a cafeteria and say it "Tastes like chicken?" A Stanford study shows that driving while sleep-deprived "tastes" like drunk driving, when the levels of impairment are compared. In a way, drunk driving is getting a bad rap because now everything is being compared to it. DUI has been yoked to talking on a cellphone, using a hands-free device while talking and now being...sleepy. More »

1:45 PM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Travis Hudson
472 views, 22 comments

Latest by Berafftone: @RoninianHoon: I'm still partial to "Vote or Die" Vote or die muthafucka, muthafucka vote or die Rock the vote or else I'm gonna stick a knife through your eye Democracy is founded on one simple rule Get out there and vote more »

news

World's Best Mom: Buckles Up Case Of Beer Instead Of Toddler

Floridian Tina Williams had had "a few" drinks, lacked a driver's license, and was seen running a red light and swerving across traffic lanes; she played the "I was running out of gas" attempt-to-get-out-of-DUI card with the arresting officer, with predictable lack of success. So far we're not even talking local news story here, but there's more. What catapulted Ms. Williams into the spotlight for her 15 minutes of unwanted fame was the fact that her 1-year-old was roaming around loose in the back seat, yet a case of Busch was safely buckled up in the shotgun position. You know, priorities! [Smoking Gun]

8:00 AM on Fri Feb 8 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,255 views, 30 comments

Latest by LandofMinos, a p' p' piece from here and a p' p' piece from there: and the problem is??? more »

offbeat news

Drunk Drives Lawn Mower in Ill-Fated Booze Run

Sometimes it's so easy to be proud of your fellow statesmen. Let's say you live in Adrian, Michigan, your wife has taken the car, you have run out of wine, and there's a snowstorm raging outside. What would you do? If you were Frank Kozumplik, you would hop on your John Deere lawn mower and drive down the middle of the street to the liquor store to get some more. Police arrested Mr. Kozumplik after catching up to him as he made his way home with four more bottles and a 0.20 BAC. The coppers seized the mower and released Mr. Kozumplik to his home, where he likely finished his bottles and made another attempt on a child's big wheel. [via MLive.com]

10:30 AM on Tue Jan 29 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
1,109 views, 13 comments

Latest by LandofMinos, a p' p' piece from here and a p' p' piece from there: @BSAKat: The Lord Humongous? Ruler of the wastelands? Just walk away... more »

gadgets

HawkEye Eye Sobriety Detector is a Frat Boy's Worst Nightmare


The tried and true driving field sobriety test may be getting a much deserved update with the HawkEye detection kit that utilizes the eyes to detect inebriation. It is capable of detecting more than just alcohol, including drugs — light and heavy. Dick Studdard, a man with a very unfortunate name was the mastermind behind the HawkEye. It is a surprisingly simple concept despite the studdard-iness of Dick's idea. Regardless of its ability, I highly doubt it will be capable of penetrating the eyes of the grim reaper himself, Nick Nolte when he goes on a drunken driving spree. More »

9:15 AM on Tue Jan 15 2008
By Travis Hudson
1,249 views, 23 comments

Latest by Jake: Is there any real science with double blind studies to back this thing up? I sure hope they don't just start adopting it because its looks like its a 'great idea'. more »

video games

Scotland Tackles Drunk Driving with In-Game Advertising

Scotland officials are taking a different route to tackle the drunk-driving Scots. Rather than more checkpoints, better public transportation or other options, they will be dumping nearly $20,000 into video game advertising. More »

3:45 PM on Wed Dec 26 2007
By Travis Hudson
961 views, 3 comments

offbeat news

Drunk Driver Hits Cop Car Stopping Drunk Driver

It seems that there's nothing to do in Minnesota but drink and drive, at least over the holidays. According to police, they were making a stop on the suspicion of a DWI when a car full of twenty-something women from St. Cloud plowed into the parked police cruiser. These are the times when we make crucial decisions in our lives and, in this case, the young lady driving the car didn't make the right decision. More »

3:30 PM on Thu Dec 20 2007
By Matt Hardigree
1,666 views, 21 comments

industry news

Nissan Developing Anti-Drunk Driving Car, Nick Nolte Rejoices

Nissan has partnered with Japan's University of Occupational and Environmental Health School of Health Sciences (that has to look awesome on a jersey) to study the influence of alcohol in the body in order to better understand how to create pre-emptive drunk driving technologies. The end result of this car will be a drunk driving project car that will help researchers analyze how boozed up drivers operate automobiles. We could think of a few test drivers for this project. Full press release below the jump. More »

9:30 AM on Wed Dec 19 2007
By Matt Hardigree
471 views, 7 comments

Latest by n/a: Gee... what about the guy who sits in his back seat wondering why or where's the joint or maybe the neighbors are watching more »

holiday gift guide

Booze Cruise Radio-Controlled Car Game

We're not suggesting that folks playing a few spirited rounds of Radio Controlled Highball Navigation are necessarily going to feel inspired to hop in a real car and cause a gory 25-car pileup, but there's something a bit, you know, unsettling about the Booze Cruise Radio Controlled Car. It looks as if you set your drink in the roof-mounted cup holder and then attempt to drive it through an obstacle course straight to your powerful thirst. [Car Crazy Gifts]

2:00 PM on Mon Dec 17 2007
By Murilee Martin
640 views, 9 comments

Latest by charles_barrett: Oh please...! I can play with a toy car intoxicated to blotto with booze and never step behind the wheel of an auto in that entire interval. I may wreck the toy car, but I won't harm any humans. I drink, more »

news

Legless Drunk Steers Truck While Legged Drunk Works Pedals

So who's actually driving the vehicle, legally speaking, when one guy's at the wheel and another is operating the pedals? And what if the guy at the wheel has no legs? Sadly, the case of Harvey Miller and Edwin H. Marzinske won't be the one that goes all the way to the Supreme Court for a ruling on this burning legal issue, because both of them were schnockered when they tried to drive a Chevy truck home from their Blatz-chugging Wisconsin revelry. [International Herald Tribune]

3:00 PM on Thu Aug 30 2007
By Murilee Martin
1,027 views, 22 comments

Latest by squablow: And then the one legged guy with no arms from a few weeks ago stole the truck. Which horseman of the apocalypse is that? more »

cleanup in aisle five

Drunk Woman Enters Supermarket, In a Mercedes

When it comes to inadvertently driving into supermarkets, nearly killing or maiming unsuspecting shoppers and causing untold thousands in property damage, being pissed drunk at the wheel trumps mistaking the brake for the gas. Just saying. [via Carscoop]

7:14 AM on Sat Aug 4 2007
By Mike Spinelli
2,425 views, 33 comments

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Nissan Concept Car Shows Anti Drunk-Driving Tech

Let's say you're drunk and no one's around to grab your keys and accept your wildly thrown punches, verbal abuse and ultimate crying jag. Nissan has a solution. It's a series of technologies the company says will identify a driver's state of sobriety. All together, they can detect the odor of alcohol, ascertain a driver's level of drowsiness (tightening the seat belt to get their attention) and monitor driving behavior for signs of inattentiveness or distraction. They've put them all in a concept car — a Nissan Fuga (Infiniti M45) — and has set about testing the system with the intention to incorporate such features into production cars. That's great, but can't anyone develop a sensor that detects when people draw puds on your face with a squeeze bottle of mustard? Seriously. More »

10:30 AM on Fri Aug 3 2007
By Mike Spinelli
2,636 views, 11 comments

Latest by n/a: use your heads you guys, its not just for the rich people its to introduce the technology...its a concept car, its to experiment and test the technology, their not trying to get every american to buy the car their seeing more »

is paris's next car a versa?

Nissan testing in-car breathalyzer

In a potential bid to corner the celebrity market, Nissan is developing an in car Breathalyzer. In equipped cars, the system is activated when the key is switched to "on," requiring the driver to blow into it before the engine will start. If the blood alcohol level is determined to be above a preset limit, it disables the vehicle's ignition. No word on what Nissan's plans for the system are or how long the vehicle would remain disabled, so keep it away from your hilarious drunken friends. More »

5:45 PM on Thu Jul 26 2007
By Wes Siler
660 views, 10 comments

Latest by squablow: You have to use it while driving? That sounds dangerous all by itself. And annoying on a long road trip. more »

news

Talking Urinal Mints To Put Kibosh On New Mexico Drunk Driving

It's well known that New Mexico has a serious problem with drunk driving (at one point it became the only state with its own "DWI Czar"). In a move that reeks of desperation shows real innovative thinking, the state is now buying 500 urinal mints, to be placed in men's rooms in bars across the state. These futuristic devices detect the presense of a micturator and play recorded anti-drunk-driving messages to their, er, captive audience (in a female voice that is first flirty, then stern). Yes, flirt with me, talking urinal mint! – Murilee Martin More »

3:02 PM on Fri Feb 16 2007
By Murilee Martin
152 views, 9 comments

Latest by Purrts: Mass transit in New Mexiso? What, are you going to ride a chili pepper truck from Hatch to Carlsbad? Albequrque had, 10 years ago, a decent bus system. But, let's get real about this. As for talking urinal cakes, they'd better more »

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