By Ashley Halsey III
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 7, 2011; 10:51 PM
The technology developed in the past decade to sniff out terrorist bombs eventually could be used to combat another scourge: drunk drivers.
Researchers funded by auto manufacturers and federal safety regulators are working on sensory devices – to be installed as standard equipment on all new vehicles – that would keep a vehicle from starting if the driver has had too much to drink.
“We’re five to seven years away from being able to integrate this into cars,” said Robert Strassburger, vice president for safety for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, a trade group for the world’s major auto companies.
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Philadelphia police have discovered that four breathalyzer machines routinely used to test motorists for alcohol and drug impairment were improperly calibrated, throwing at least 1,147 recent or ongoing DUI cases into uncertainty.
“We screwed up, folks. We screwed up, plain and simple, and now we’re paying for it,” Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said yesterday morning at a news conference at police headquarters.
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