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North Carolina's leading Ignition Interlock provider
No one had a bad word to say about Daniel Conaway, a taxi driver known by south Scottsdale bar patrons as Dan Cab. Every night he plied the streets, making sure that drinkers got home safely after a night out. Friends said it was what he enjoyed doing. Last October 23, life took a tragic …
It’s a strange little holiday. It commemorates nothing. There’s no mention of it in the news, and no stores have sales in its honor. No one ever wishes anyone happy returns of this particular day. Yet a great deal of alcohol gets drunk – and a great deal of people get drunk – on this …
One of the election battles that was overshadowed by the presidential results this November was marijuana legalization. In the past few years a number of states have legalized marijuana for recreational use, beginning with Colorado and Washington in 2012. On this election day Arizona had its chance, but its citizens voted against legalization, by about …
There’s a lot of data flying around. A lot more data than there are people making sense of it. Recently the website 247wallst.com decided to interpret some data from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps to find what it termed the “drunkest” city in each state of the US. It makes a good headline, and gets …
Most people view an ignition interlock as what it is: a device designed to measure breath alcohol that keeps you from starting a vehicle if you’ve been drinking. It’s a valuable piece of safety technology. But some people view it as a challenge. Bad idea. We don’t know why it is. As soon as someone …
There are heroes in movies and comics that wear capes. And heroes in real life that wear uniforms. But there are also heroes that dress like you and me. They don’t have any special powers or even special training – what they do is pretty much what other people do. But because they do it …
Google is determined to pry us all out of the driver’s seat, and Arizona is where it’s testing the crowbar. The company’s self-driving cars have been plying the roads of Chandler – carrying a qualified pilot should anything go wrong, of course – and now there will soon be more of the autonomous vehicles in …
If you’re ordered to install an ignition interlock in your vehicle, there’s a good reason for that: the courts and the public want reassurance that you won’t drive again while impaired. And we’ll assume you’re a responsible driver who won’t have any more violations. But you’ll still have the problem of explaining to your friends …
