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Car Connected Alcohol-Level Tube Might Be Introduced In California

December 28, 2014 Posted by Staff

Car Connected Alcohol-Level Tube Might Be Introduced In CaliforniaDrunken driving kills are very criticized by society. Now, it seems like officials are also coming around. Driving drunk may soon become a rarity in California as legislators plan to compel convicted felons to blow into a car connected alcohol-level tube. This will be a prevention tool to guarantee they are sober enough to run their vehicles.

State Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo intends to extend a project already rolling in four counties in California, including Alameda, and 24 different states.  The senator scheduled the bill for introduction on Monday.  Hill proposed that anybody found guilty of driving drunk would be compelled to introduce an start interlock gadget in their auto for six months if they are on their first offense. If the drivers are on their second offence they would have to have the device installed for a year.

People driving under the influence take the lives of about 1,000 Californians annually and harm about 20,000, according to Hill’s estimations.  Also, available data proves that most of the times the offenders are not first timers with inebriated driving. About one third of the drunken driving sentences are given to repeat subsequent offenders.

But Hill’s motivation is not only legal. He also has a personal stake in the bill passing the legislature.  Three decades back his best friend died because of a tanked driver.

Citizens in California appear to be supporting the act, most of them arguing that those driving under the influence should receive be zero tolerance in front of the law.

The Ignition interlock devices are a type of Breathalyzers that can be linked with a car’s ignition system.  To use them, drivers have to blow into the gadget when they get in their vehicles. If the device identifies the alcohol level as being over a preset standard, the auto won’t start. Under the enactment, a wrongdoer would need to pay to set up and lease the gadget.  If a given driver can’t manage the cost of it the company producing or retailing the device would provide some aid with the payment.

It normally costs around $100 to have the gadget installed and another $50 to $100/ month to rent them.

The bill is not new in town as the National Transportation Safety Board already suggested a couple of years ago that each state introduced this type of regulation.  At the time the agency said the device is one of the best suited ways to decrease the number of accidents caused by drunken drivers.  These accidents kill over 32,000 individuals annually.

Frank Harris, chief of state government affairs for Mothers Against Drunk Driving, said the engineering works much better than more correctional punishments.

The most recent available data shows that in 2009, 43,000 individuals with DUI sentences were caught driving with their licenses suspended in the state of California.

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Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: breathalyzers inside DUI offenders' cars, drunken driving killings, expand use of ignition interlocks for drunk drivers, Ignition locks may help state, Ignition locks proposed to curb state's drunken drivers, law to reduce drunken driving

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