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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has unveiled a first-ever prototype vehicle with an advanced alcohol detection technology that could ultimately prevent vehicles from being operated by a drunken driver. (Photo: YouTube) 
  
 Washington — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration unveiled a first-ever prototype vehicle with an advanced alcohol detection technology that could ultimately prevent vehicles from being operated by a drunken driver. 
  
 At an event in front of hundreds of members of Mothers Against Drunk Driving at the agency's headquarters, NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind showed off the technology that has been under development since 2008. 
  
 Under the partnership, NHTSA is working with automakers including Detroit's Big Three automakers to develop a Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety — known as "DADSS" — a noninvasive system aimed at detecting when a driver is above the legal alcohol limit. 
  
 "There is still a great deal of work to do, but support from Congress and the industry has helped us achieve key research and development milestones," Rosekind said. "DADSS has enormous potential to prevent drunk driving in specific populations such as teen drivers and commercial fleets, and making it an option available to vehicle owners would provide a powerful new tool in the battle against drunk driving deaths." 
  
 Rosekind said the agency has no plans to begin a process to mandate the devices on all vehicles. He said he hopes the technology could be tested in a few years — in a commercial or government fleet to start, he said. He thinks once it is proven that parents and others will embrace it. 
  
 People will think, Rosekind said, "how did we ever drive without it." The system needs to be instantaneous and foolproof for the public to accept it. "No one is going tolerate anything less than that." 
  
 The American Beverage Institute, a restaurant trade association representing over 8,000 restaurants, opposes the DADSS program. They also strongly opposed efforts by the National Transportation Safety Board -- unsuccessful so far — to convince states to lower the maximum blood alcohol level from .08 to .05. 
  
 The group argues that since alcohol isn't immediately absorbed into the blood stream — and a person's BAC can rise while driving — it means the DADDS system would be set below .08. 
  
 "'Voluntary' passive alcohol sensors like DADSS will do nothing to keep these dangerous drivers off our roads. Instead, DADSS will simply stop many responsible social drinkers who have a glass of wine with dinner from starting their cars," ABI Managing Director Sarah Longwell said. 
  
 Unlike an ignition interlock system used by some convicted drunken drivers, this system would not require drivers to blow into a device but would sample the air in the cabin. The project's objective is to complete research within the next five years to allow for the introduction of the technology into the vehicle fleet. 
  
 NHTSA showed off a research vehicle that incorporates two different approaches to measuring blood-alcohol content — touch-based and breath-based — that will be tested in a pilot field trial. Automakers say research on the project could take another five to eight years "but commercialization could come at any time," said Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety chief Rob Strassburger, who heads an automaker working group on the issue. 
  
 Automakers want to make sure the technology is completely reliable — and wouldn't prevent a sober driver from starting a vehicle. The technology could even be set to bar a teen driver from starting a vehicle with any alcohol in their system. 
  
 Congress is considering legislation to extend federal funding for the research project. Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., said the program has "amazing promise" and could be a safety advance on par with airbags and seat belts that could help "eradicate drunk driving." 
  
 Currently, 25 states require alcohol ignition interlock devices for first-time drunk driving offenders. Deputy Transportation Secretary Victor Mendez said as recently as a few years ago the technology was a "pipe dream" but after research it is closer to a reality. 
  
 In 2013, NHTSA said it had reached a deal with 15 major automakers to continue researching the effort. Research using laboratory-scale prototype detection devices has been underway for several years. 
  
 The 2013 deal extended the agreement with automakers to continue working on it for another five years. 
  
 The program was authorized by Congress in 2012. During the first year of the extended agreement, NHTSA and automakers contributed a combined $6.5 million to help advance long-term research. 
  
 In 2012, deaths in crashes involving alcohol increased 4.6 percent to 10,322 deaths — the first increase in six years — and above the overall 3.3 percent increase in road deaths in 2012. The number fell slightly to 10,076 in 2013, including 6,500 drivers who were legally intoxicated. 
  
 The number has fallen sharply over the last decade — down from 13,000 in 2007 — and the alcohol related fatality death rate has fallen by about 25 percent since then. 
  
 DShepardson@detroitnews.com 
  
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 The new equipment won’t require a driver to blow into a tube, like the interlock devices some states require after drunken-driving convictions. Instead, either a passive set of breath sensors or touch-sensitive contact points on a starter button or gear shift would immediately register the level of alcohol in the bloodstream. 
  
 Drivers who registered above the legal limit wouldn’t be able to start the car. 
  
 “The message today is not ‘Can we do this?’ but ‘How soon can we do this?’ ” said Mark Rosekind, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). “It is a huge step forward.” 
  
 Eager to introduce an advance that would rival seat belts or air bags in saving lives, Rosekind said he would push to get the technology finalized, field tested and put into use before the five to eight years anticipated by researchers. 
  
 Though no cost-per-car estimate has been made, once the sensors go into general production it’s anticipated the cost will be equal to that of seat belts or air bags, about $150-$200 per vehicle. 
  
 Asked whether there would be a federal effort to mandate use of the devices in all new vehicles, Rosekind said he wasn’t sure that would be necessary. 
  
 “There’s not going to be a parent who isn’t going to want this in their child’s car,” he said. “There’s not going to be a business that’s not going to want this in their vehicles.” 
  
 NHTSA, safety advocates and automakers discussed whether the necessary technology was feasible for years. Researchers funded by auto manufacturers and federal safety regulators now have determined that it works. 
  
 [Too drunk? Your car won’t go along for the ride.] 
  
 They have developed passive sensors that detect how much a driver has had to drink, but are working on how best to package the sensors inside a vehicle. They have determined how to package touch-sensitive devices but still need to refine the technology to ensure accuracy. 
  
 “Touch-based could happen faster because we know how to package it,” said Rob Strassburger, head of the Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety and vice president of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, a trade group for the world’s major auto companies. 
  
 The advances that lead to Thursday’s announcement at NHTSA headquarters were made at a Boston laboratory run by Bud Zaouk. 
  
 “These devices have to be quick, accurate and easy to use for the automakers to put them on their platforms,” Zaouk said. 
  
 The goal is to produce a device that will react in less than a second and function without maintenance for at least 10 years or 157,000 miles. Sensors that detect alcohol levels in the air can react in less than a second after a driver gets into the vehicle. 
  
 The technology is an offshoot of advances in sensory detection since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. With sudden demand for bomb detection sensors, the ability of machines to scan people, packages and luggage for tiny trace elements has expanded exponentially. 
  
 The American Beverage Institute, a restaurant trade association, opposes the alcohol detection system. 
  
 “Today, NHTSA, MADD, and major auto makers presented what they claim will be a voluntary system ... a description that directly contradicts their own past statements,” the organization said in a statement. 
  
 Though Rosekind said he didn’t think it would be necessary to make the system mandatory, he did not preclude that option. MADD is unambiguous in its belief that the system belongs in all vehicles. 
  
 In 2013, 10,076 people were killed in car crashes involving drunk drivers, federal data shows. That was less than half the number of alcohol-related traffic deaths recorded in 1982, when 21,113 people were killed. In the past 30 years, 401,404 people have died in drunken-driving crashes. 
  
 Colleen Sheehey-Church, president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, told an audience at NHTSA that included scores of her group’s members about the 2004 death of her son, who drowned in the back seat of a car driven into a river by a drunk driver. 
  
 “This is the future,” she said, gesturing toward a vehicle equipped with prototype detection gear, “when drunk drivers will be unable to drive their cars. If this technology was available in 2004, my son, Dustin, might be alive today.” |||||
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Advances in detection technology brought in after 9/11 could bring an end to something that kills a lot more Americans every year than war or terrorism: drunk driving. In a technological advance that supporters say could be as important as seat belts, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has rolled out a prototype vehicle with alcohol-detecting breath sensors and touch points that stop drivers over the legal alcohol limit from operating it, the Detroit News reports. NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind says the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety—DADSS—is a "huge step forward" that could be up and running by 2020. The system has been in the works since 2008. Rosekind says that as long as DADSS can be made instant and foolproof, the public—especially parents and operators of commercial fleets—will wonder how they lived without it, the News reports. The advances that made it possible are a result of improved bomb detection systems after 9/11, reports the Washington Post, which notes that although drunk-driving deaths have halved over the last 30 years, there were still more than 10,000 in 2013. Not in favor: the American Beverage Institute. The industry group says DADSS will "stop many responsible social drinkers who have a glass of wine with dinner from starting their cars"—and is pretty skeptical of claims that the system will be voluntary.