The NTSB is recommending that all new vehicles in the U.S. be required to have blood alcohol monitoring systems that can stop an intoxicated person from driving.
The National Transportation Safety Board is recommending that all new vehicles in the U.S. be required to have blood alcohol monitoring systems that can stop an intoxicated person from driving.
The NTSB, which has no regulatory authority and can only ask other agencies to act, said the recommendation is designed to put pressure on NHTSA to move. It could be effective as early as three years from now. But Homendy says she also understands that perfecting the alcohol tests will take time. "We also know that it’s going to take time for NHTSA to evaluate what technologies are available and how to develop a standard."The agency and a group of 16 automakers have been jointly funding research on alcohol monitoring since 2008, forming a group called Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety.
Once the technology is ready, it will take years for it to be in most of the roughly 280 million vehicles on U.S. roads.
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