How about using electronic driver's licenses as the keys for our cars? If your car was not registered, or you didn't have insurance, or your license expired, the car would not start.
Oh, and if you were in a bar in the last few hours, the car wouldn't start then, either, for every time you visited the bar, as you purchased a drink, they would scan the information onto your license.
This is not an original idea, but comes from a friend of mine. I like it. I especially like the part about de-activating the driver's license when you purchase alcohol at a bar. Impaired driving is credited with causing one-third of our traffic fatalities. I don't know what share of that comes after exiting bars, but obviously a fair portion.
I wonder, if this were done on a state level, how expensive it would be to have cars fitted with such keying mechanisms. Could we required auto dealers to install the keying, or would that be too expensive? I'm hoping the changes could be made for under $100 and do not think that too expensive.
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