DADSS - Eliminating drunk driving with Technology

There is exciting news in the ongoing fight to prevent and maybe even eliminate a major threat to the American family: drunk driving.

Advanced technology to prevent drunk drivers from operating vehicles holds the potential of eliminating this threat. For nearly three years, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and leading automakers, working through the Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety, have partnered on an advanced alcohol detection research program called DADSS, Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety.

DADSS is an ambitious undertaking, addressing a broad range of issues while developing a technology to prevent drunk drivers from operating vehicles. The early phase of the project has focused on identifying technologies that sense a driver's blood alcohol content level, while also being extremely reliable, durable, repeatable, maintenance free and inexpensive.

In the first phase of technology development, three companies are developing prototypes to be delivered to project experts in late spring or early summer. The next step will be testing at a lab associated with the Harvard Medical School.

Developing advanced alcohol detection technology through DADSS is one of the major elements of Mothers Against Drunk Driving's Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving (CEDD).

Morre information can be found at www.dadss.org.