Breathalyzers on cars?Drunk driving is a serious problem. Why not fix it?
A Judge can mandate that an individual with a DUI have a breathalyzer installed in their car. Why not make it mandatory for all car companies to built a circuit in which the driver is
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breathalizer's can help curb drunk driving
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Safety advocates and alcohol interests are squaring off over legislation intended to reduce alcohol-related traffic deaths through the use of devices that prevent drunken drivers from starting their cars. Tucked into the Senate’s transportation bill is a provision that directs the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to study ‘more widespread deployment of in-vehicle technology’ that would prevent drunken driving. The research will be carried out by the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety, a collaboration between NHTSA and the automobile industry. The idea is to develop some kind of nonintrusive technology based around touch or breathing that would be able to sense when a driver is drunk and disable the car. Technology on the market now — called ‘ignition interlocks’ — require a driver to blow into a Breathalyzer device attached to the car’s dashboard and then wait 30 seconds until the sample is analyzed. Only then will the car start.
You blow into a breathalyzer, and if you are over the legal limit, your car doesn't start. The debate over how they should be used is more complicated. Groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving say interlock devices keep drivers who shouldn't be on the
more...This will require the driver to breath into a Breathalyzer before the car will start. The bill also calls for "DUI conviction" to be printed on the driver's licenses of all offenders while they have an interlock device on their car.
more...As the law stands now, a first time DUI offender gets a breathalyzer put into their car. "If it's greater than a .02 percent blood alcohol, he will not be able to start his vehicle," says Lester Freeman. Freeman owns a company that installs the
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