New Technology Looks To Drunk Driver-Proof Vehicles Within five Years

‘Newly unveiled technology will hope to one day stop drunk drivers in their tracks.

The Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety is “a research partnership between the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and an industry consortium to develop technology to prevent alcohol-impaired drivers from operating their vehicles while under the influence,” according to a DADSS press release.

Two prototypes were displayed Thursday during a press event at the Department of Transportation. The breath-based system pulls the driver’s breath into a sensor where a beam of infrared light is directed at molecules in the breath. The sensor can compare carbon dioxide and alcohol molecules, and if the alcohol molecules are above a certain proportion of carbon dioxide, the vehicle won’t start.’

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