Hugh Pickens writes writes “The Economic Times reports on the first working prototypes of a new technology that would measure blood alcohol content in a driver’s fingertips, using sophisticated touch-based sensors situated in steering wheels and door locks and engineers say that unlike court-ordered breath-analyzer ignition locks, which require a driver to blow into a tube and wait a few seconds for the result, their systems will analyze a driver’s blood-alcohol content in less than one second. Anti-drunken driving crusaders believe that almost 9,000 road traffic deaths could be prevented every year if alcohol detection devices were used in all vehicles to prevent alcohol-impaired drivers from driving their vehicles. ‘We believe this might turn the car into the cure for the elimination of drunk driving,’ says Laura Dean-Mooney, president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. But not everyone is enamored of the device which could be available to automakers in eight to 10 years. ‘For ordinary, law-abiding citizens, it’s an invasion of their privacy,’ says Christen Varley, president of the Greater Boston Tea Party.”

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Sensor Measures In Fingertips If Driver Is Drunk