MADD’s “In-Car Searches Will Be Ready in 8 to 10 Years”
In 2006, MADD, the government, Mothers Against Drunk Driving and members of the automotive industry created a panel to encourage and support the development of new technology that would stop drivers from operating a vehicle if drunk. The result was DADSS or Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety. DADSS uses tissue spectrometry, a technology that employs an estimation of alcohol in tissue through detection of light absorption and distant spectrometry which uses part of the infrared light spectrum to detect alcohol concentration in the drivers’s breath. In 2008, at MADD’s urging, the Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety entered into a $10 million agreement with the federal government to develop such a technology. This system would search every driver (not just convicted DUI offenders) every single time they started their car. France will be the first country to require breathalyzers in all of its cars by 2012. The new plan will force every driver to have a breathalyzer kit in their cars so they can check their alcohol level before driving. In it’s “Invention Issue,” Time Magazine named DADSS one of the 50 best invention of 2011. As stated in TIME, the devices are in testing now and will be embedded into a research vehicle by the end of 2013,” TIME continues. “If all goes as planned, they could be on the road in eight to 10 years.” “The goal over time is to equip all passenger vehicles in the U.S. with the technology, since without full implementation the benefits will be reduced,” said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in a statement.
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