Researchers are developing sensory devices to be installed in cars that would keep them from starting if the drivers have had too many drinks.
The new technology would require a passive set of sensors permanently installed in the vehicles or touch-sensitive contact points on a key fob or starter button would immediately register the level of alcohol in the bloodstream.
The “technology presents a new opportunity for us to dramatically lower drunk-driving deaths and has the potential to save literally thousands of lives every year,” the Washington Post newspaper quoted David Strickland, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, as saying.
The objective is to produce a device that will react in less than a second and function without maintenance for least 10 years or 157,000 miles. —ANI