A new strategy with regard to the rejection Drunk Driving
The threats of arrest and punishment, for decades, the first line tactics against drunk driver, is not more in the fight for the dead, officials say, and they fight on technology — Hardware detection of alcohol in each vehicle - a solution to the problem.In the first phase of the plan, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, backed by a national association of state highway officials and car manufacturers, was announced on Monday a campaign to change drunken driving laws in 49 countries require that the original sponsors to install a device tests, the driver and the car is stopped, if it recognizes alcohol.
Many countries already require the devices, also known as the International ignition for man, were sentenced on several occasions. Last year, New Mexico was the second State in Washington to mandatory after a first Offense. With this tactic, and others, the State would have a drop of 11.3 per cent of deaths from alcohol during the past year.
New Mexico was not the only country to a decrease in deaths from alcohol as regards driving, and several countries have also shown greater declines. For example, from 2004 to 2005, Maryland fell by 235 to 286 or 17.8 per cent. In New Mexico, which has a chronic problem of drunken driving, state officials cited the new legislation on the locks as an important factor for their campaign to reduce the mortality rate. The rule is not effective, on June 17, 2005.
“It is an integral part of our success,” said Dir Bill Richardson of New Mexico, said, others should follow his country.
Supporters of locks to recognize that they have no children. You can easily be circumvented if a sober person blows into the Breathalyzer tube, for example.
Officials say locks for first offenders are not a panacea, but also reduce repeat offences. It is said that the next step is a program of development of devices to test each driver discreet of alcohol and disable the vehicle. The automaker Saab and a medical equipment Company have already devices that can be adapted to the offer.
Statistics show that about 13000 people die each year in car crashes, in which the driver was legally drunk.
“We have seen no progress in 10 years, we are quite at a standstill,” said Susan A. Ferguson, a researcher at the Insurance Institute Highway Safety.
Ms. Ferguson said the automatic operation of the most promising technologies such as air bags. “We do not want the soccer mom Kids Drop off, go to the grocery store and the preschool and in the air to drive off, whenever something,” she says.
Chuck Hurley, the Chief Executive of Madd, said that automatic sensors that could be used first in fleets, and, finally, that insurance companies could be given to drivers to cover, fit it.
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers helped a new working group appointed by Mexico of Mr. Richardson, a Democrat, to develop its programme and supports the early firing of the use of locks, said a spokesman. Thus works governors Highway Safety Association, said its chairman, Christopher J. Murphy.
Mr. Murphy said the typical penalty, forfeiture of a drunken driver’s license, did not work because offenders drive what, California alone accounts for around one million people exposed to driving or revoke licenses , “He said.
It also supports unobtrusive alcohol sensing in cars. “If 40 percent of all crashes are alcohol involved,” he says, “I do not think going to be difficult to sell one.”
Monday, political groups and the Department of Transportation also plans to announce an implementation of the campaign was aimed at a drunken driver.
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