First, there are about 14000 deaths a year in U.S.A because of drunken driving.[ref: link].It is a staggering number that demands immediate attention. Second, the above number is only the number of fatalities, not people who drove under influence of alcohol. The actual number of people who drove under influence would be astonishing.Third, cars are going hi-tech. we have cars with GPS, Bluetooth, hard disk drives, voice technology. We have cars with advanced safety features like alerting driver when car senses the driver is sleeping. Given all these it is high time that cars have "breathe analyzer" to gauge higher alcohol level and alert or stop driver from starting the car.This way each time driver gets into the car he/ she is forced to breathe into the machine and only if it figures driver is under legal limits it will let the driver engage the starter for engine. This way if the driver is drunk, he/she can't even start the car.
I'm waiting for the day when car companies will take this idea and make it a reality.
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lets take a survey of this idea and see how the responses would be. How many people do you really think are ready to buy such cars which does not allow them to drink and drive?
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