A push-button starter that tells if you’re drunk! Info and Specs

by Zack Colt

Even though there have been created lots of security measures over time, there are never enough. So, two companies have joined their forces in order to create a push-button starter that tells you if you have been drinking in a matter of seconds, according to The Detroit Free Press.
Takata, an Auburn Hills-based parts supplier and TruTouch, an Albuquerque-based firm, have received a $2.25 million grant from the Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety not only to buld the thing, but to help make the creation commercially viable. The device can automatically sense the driver’s blood-alcohol level, but for now, it only works at room temperature and its about the size of a bread box.

With the help of The ACTS grant, Takata and TruTouch will manage to solve these details, in order to make the device fit behind a vehicle’s start button, take around 200 milliseconds to determine someone’s BAC and be able to accurately do so in temperatures like 40 below to 85 degrees and with different humidity and vibration levels. More than that, the plan is that the whole equipment is to cost somewhere around $200 per unit.

This is, without doubt, a great idea, lets just hope not only that the plan Takata and TruTouch have for the device, but that it will really work, and it will really help stopping drunk drivers all around the world.

Source: AutoBlog
Image Credit: Copyright 2011 Drew Phillips / AOL

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