Steering Wheel Checks Alcohol Consumption

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 30, 2005 @09:40AM from the holiday-weekends-are-lethal dept.

karvind writes "According to washingtonpost, Inventor Dennis Bellehumeur has made a $600 sensor that can be installed in a steering wheel or in gloves and will test a driver's skin to determine alcohol consumption. Bellehumeur, a real estate agent and deli owner in Wilton Manors, spent 12 years developing his sensor after his then-teenage son crashed into a utility pole while driving drunk and suffered minor brain damage. He received a patent this month and the sensor should complete testing this year."

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Re:The Obvious by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-30 09:45 · Score: 5, Insightful

Having a light on your dashboard telling you that you're objectively too drunk to drive will probably help reduce drunk driving for rational people who overestimate their limits.
Re:The Obvious by BigDogCH · 2005-05-30 10:33 · Score: 5, Insightful

I know I can go double the legal limit before I am impaired

That might be true, but it might also be the problem.