With more than 10,000 drunken driving fatalities a year, some safety advocates and members of Congress are pushing legislation, such as Congresswoman Debbie Dingell’s Abbas Stop Drunk Driving Act, which could mandate interlock devices in an effort keep drunken drivers off the road.
For more than a decade, the Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety has been working on technology that could result in devices that keep a car from starting based on more passive testing, such as automatically measuring the blood-alcohol of a driver as he or she breathes naturally behind the wheel, or a touch-based system that “measures blood alcohol levels by shining an infrared–light through the fingertip of the driver.”
Read the article at USA Today.
