Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncsu.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!jcz
From: jcz@ncsu.UUCP (John Carl Zeigler)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Technology Stops Drunk Driving?
Message-ID: <2487@ncsu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 10:22:35 EST
Article-I.D.: ncsu.2487
Posted: Mon Feb  6 10:22:35 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 03:54:30 EST
References: <910@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Organization: N.C. State University, Raleigh
Lines: 23


	The idea of a gadget that tests for coordination
    is not new.    I remember seeing films of such a thing
    many years ago.   The basic idea is to present the driver
    with some sort of task that he could not do if drunk,
    and which he must do to start the car.


	The biggest problem I have with this idea is that
    it presumes guilt.   I must prove my innocence before I
    can move my car.  And what happens if the device breaks??
    There I would be, stuck with my car flashing "syntax error"
    at me.     How about some sort of device that compares
    driving performance with a running record and starts flashing
    a light on the back of the car if the driver is driving in
    an impaired manner?

				John Carl Zeigler
				The SAS Intitute Inc.
				Cary NC, (919) 467 8000
				mcnc!ncsu!jcz