Technology To Stop Drunk Drivers Could Be Coming To Every New Car In The Nation

It is New Year’s Eve after all…

Federal automobile regulators say they've taken the first step toward making technology that prevents drunk and impaired driving standard in new cars.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said last week that such technology could help end a problem that kills thousands of people in the U.S. each year.

"Impaired driving crashes are 100% preventable – there's simply no excuse or reason to drive impaired by alcohol or drugs," NHTSA acting administrator Ann Carlson said in a statement.

The advance notice of proposed rulemaking announced by the agency is a preliminary stage in the creation of new federal rules.

According to NHTSA, it will allow regulators to collect information about the current state of technology used to detect and prevent impaired driving and figure out if it could be implemented nationwide.

Some technologies in development include breath and touch sensors to detect whether someone drank alcohol, as well as cameras that can monitor a person's eye movements to tell if they're inhibited, Reuters reported.

Selected excerpt(s) and linked article courtesy of Joe Hernandez, NPR(dot)org
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