Push-Button Ignition Could Detect Drunken Drivers

Posted by Paintless Removal on September 30, 2011

div xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”p<img class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451b3c669e2015391fa50b8970b" title="<img_3812" src="http://blogs.cars.com/.a/6a00d83451b3c669e2015391fa50b8970b-800wi" border="0" alt="<img_3812" //a br /Push-button ignitions in new cars have few functions other than starting and stopping the engine, but that could change in next decade. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has teamed with an auto supplier and an industry group to create technology that would use the ignition button to detect the driver’s blood-alcohol level through the skin, the Detroit Free Press reports.br /nbsp;br /Auto supplier Takata — producer of seat belts, airbags, steering wheels and more — received anbsp; grant to make this technology available. The project, called the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety, is financed by NHTSA and a joint initiative with the Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety. NHTSA says the technology could voluntarily be installed as an option in new cars.br /nbsp;br /Current detection devices are intrusive and take a few seconds to process after a user blows into the device. Takata wants its product to be non-intrusive to the driver, take less than 200 milliseconds to process and cost about $200.br /nbsp;br /a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20110927/BUSINESS01/109270441/Car-button-could-tell-you-re-tipsy" target="_self"Car Button Could Tell If You’re Tipsy/a span style="color: #888888;"(Detroit Free Press)/span/p/div
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