Tostitos' Breathalyzer Bags Can Detect If You're Drunk -- Then Call Uber 75
Slashdot reader schwit1 writes that Tostito's corn chips "has developed a special bag, available for a limited time, that can detect if you've had too much to drink." Its all-black packaging measures your breath for traces of alcohol, and if the test reveals you're sober, a green circle appears on the bag. But, Mashable reports...
If it decides you've been drinking -- regardless of how much -- an image of a red steering wheel appears on the otherwise stark black bag along with a reminder not to drive and a code for a $10 Uber discount (valid only on Super Bowl Sunday). And if you've had so much to drink that the mere act of hailing an Uber becomes a difficult chore, the bag will even do that for you. The package is equipped with near-field communication technology that will automatically order a ride when tapped with a smartphone.
Correct link (Score:4, Informative)
http://mashable.com/2017/01/25... [mashable.com]
Yeah? Wel I can Tell if a Doritos Bag is Drunk... (Score:3)
Fuck you,.. you little..fucking... snack bag thing.
You think you're so hot? I don't need you. I don't need you at all.
Hmmm...just a little bit of your savory contents...ummmm.
Who are you to judge me? Why don't you contemplate your own short, judgemental existence. At least I'm not going to wind up in a garbage bin...
Not if I can just navigate my legs around that one there....
(...crash, bang...)
fuck. don't look at me like that,
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And 16 hours later the editors still haven't bothered to fix the link.
In any other line of work resubmitting old articles as new, submitting error-filled work that you obviously never proofread, not fixing mistakes and committing all the other errors that /. editors make would get you fired within the first few days. Fortunately for the editors here, the standards for online publishing are so low that they would literally have to be illiterate toddlers to not be qualified for their positions.
they also have a weed test (Score:2)
craving Tostitos is by itself an indicator that you've been smoking enough weed and should stay away from 7-11.
If your are blowing into a tostitos bag.... (Score:5, Funny)
You are drunk
Headline is misleading. (Score:4, Insightful)
It doesn't 'tell you you are drunk', it merely detects the presence of alcohol on your breath. You'd need an actual breathalyzer to determine if you're above the legal limit or not.
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>"It doesn't 'tell you you are drunk', it merely detects the presence of alcohol on your breath. You'd need an actual breathalyzer to determine if you're above the legal limit or not."
Yep. And the "legal limit" really isn't a good marker of how much someone is impaired either, because it can vary greatly from person to person. If one tested reaction time and/or other RESULTS/OUTCOMES oriented factors, it would be far better (and it would account for all chemical and fatigue impairments, not just alcoho
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>"The "legal limit" is a good marker of whether or not you'll be charged with drunk driving."
That is very true. But the better goal would be to have meaningful and fair methods to prevent driving by the actually incapacitated, not just those who have an arbitrary amount of one substance in their body at that moment.
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If someone is actually incapacitated, I don't think we need to worry about them driving.
The problem is dealing with people that are impaired. To me, a "meaningful" and "fair" method is simply: Don't drink and drive.
It's meaningful because it works. It's fair because it applies to everyone equally.
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Except that this whole thread is talking about other kinds of impairment which a breathalyzer cannot detect, such as being too tired to drive.
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Why would I need a test to tell me I was drinking. Wouldn't I already know that?
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Unfortunately, for some people, this is a problem.
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... I hope Slashdot editors are the first ones to go extinct.
OMG!!! You have just opened an ugly can of worms!
Who will be the user to get
The Last First Post!
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Given the history of schwit1's postings here, I'm surprised it didn't say something like that in TFS.
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But I stand by my main post - if you're idiot enough to provide potentially incriminating evidence to a communications-enabled device without complete control over how that evidence will be used, you deserve to be ground beneath the wheel.
Don't give tostitos to hamsters (Score:1)
I for one welcome our new Tostitos-eating cannibal hamster overlords.
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There's a another theory about the disappearing hamsters and it involved Richard Gere and a length of PVC pipe.
It was a gerbil, not a hamster, and a cardboard paper-towel tube, not a PVC pipe. And Richard Gere's supposed connection to the episode has been debunked as a myth. [snopes.com]
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I for one welcome our new Tostitos-eating cannibal hamster overlords.
Welcome them with Bud on ice, FTW.
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So this is really just a big old ad by Uber right? Various news agencies has fallen for it completely and spread it for free.
From TFA [mashable.com], mis-linked in TFS:
The Frito-Lay-owned brand partnered with Uber and Mothers Against Drunk Driving to pull off the stunt, which was orchestrated by San Francisco ad agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners.
So, promotions all round, not just for Uber.
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Drunkenness could be defeated better by enacting a muslim registry.
You do know that devout Muslims don't drink, right?
Doritos (Score:2)
strange new world of marketing (Score:2)
A Bad Idea, on the Whole. (Score:1)
If you're going to drive don't drink at all, it's really that simple. Don't give people an excuse to try and drink as much as they can get away with.
Like the good man said, if you have to worry about drinking too much it's a sure sign you're not to be trusted when you do.
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Yeah, I'd like to have been a fly on the wall when they ran this past their lawyers. If they did run it past them, because I can't imagine a lawyer who would turn apoplectic at a client doing something with so much risk.
All it'd take is one false negative -- or even a credible-ish sounding report of a false negative -- and they could be on the hook for a lifetime of nursing home bills.
As the Lawrence KS police department tweeted [twitter.com]: If you have to blow into a Tostitos bag to know if you're intoxicated, for the
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An alcoholic acquaintance, OK, honestly now, no alt facts, my Brothers favorite line is "Don't drink and drive, you might hit a bump and spill your drink. Alcohol abuse!"
And yeah, he would blow into the Cheetos bag....
They have that covered (Score:2)
When you open any Tostitos bag now, an included audio chip automatically plays five minutes of disclaimers and lack of indemnity as the user consumes chips. Also each chip has the words "I AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS" printed in delicious blue-corn ink on the surface of each chip.
and how much of puke fee does the driver get? (Score:2)
and how much of puke fee does the driver get?
Re:and how much of puke fee does the driver get? (Score:4, Funny)
Couldn't you just bring the Tostitos bag with you?
What about a taxi? (Score:2)
When you're drunk, you're too drunk to judge a random driver. So better call a taxi.
well, if you need this (Score:2)
- don't know how much you drunk
- need a nanny
you have a bigger problem than another gadget can fix
How Expensive? (Score:2)
Just how damn expensive is this bag of Tostito's? IF they didnt raise the price they've got to be taking a loss. Note to self, buy a couple to ebay later.
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But my Corn Chip bag said I was fine to drive! (Score:1)
I swear officer!
Uh-Oh! (Score:2)
Now Tostitos will get boycotted by the organized anti-Trump protest groups because they hate Uber for supplying rides to travelers at JFK when taxi unions called for a boycott at JFK over the two Iraqis detained because of Trumps EO regarding people coming into the US from certain majority-Muslim nations & regions.
That's going to leave a lot of pasty nerd/geek basement-dwellers heavily conflicted!
Strat
Brilliant (Score:2)
The link in the slashdot story leads to...https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/01/29/1942208/mashable.com/2017/01/25/tostitos-breathalyzer-bag-super-bowl/...the slashdot story itself.
Brilliant recursive clickthrough ad-revenue perpetual motion?
Or, perhaps the poster was drunk?
I hope they remembered (Score:2)
Easier way to tell if I'm drunk (Score:2)
The easier way to tell if I'm drunk: I'm eating Tostitos at all.