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New technology to keep drunk drivers from driving

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There were nearly 10,000 deaths from drunk driving in the U.S. last year, down 2. 5 percent from the year before. There is now a debate over technology that could prevent drunk drivers from starting their engines. On October 29, 2010, Matt and Meredith Eastridge were pregnant with their first child, a son. The same night, David Huffman spent the last two hours of his life getting drunk. He put away the equivalent of 15 drinks, each one recorded on a security camera. The 25-year-old stumbled out of the Charlotte bar and three minutes later, Matt and Meredith Eastridge were critically injured when Huffman, with a blood alcohol content of. 23 and driving 100 miles per hour, hurtled into their SUV. "I remember saying look at that, look at that car. That was the last thing i remember" before being hit head-on, Meredith said.

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Bud

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-0.0362657"One is breath-based and the other is touch-based. The idea is to develop a sensor that could detect if anyone is above the legal limit of .08 and prevent them from moving the vehicle and driving," Bud said. ...
0"you press the start button and it starts the vehicle. And it will be a small infrared light that shines inside the finger," Bud said. ...
0.0793444"Alcohol has its own unique optical signature," Bud said, ...
0.0585356"Alcohol has its own unique optical signature," Bud said, and if the optical signature registers above .08, "then the vehicle prevents you from moving."
0.0842863"That infra-red light excited the molecules and allows you to find out how much alcohol you have in the breath. It's non-contact, non-invasive," Bud said. ...
0"I think at this stage we are probably looking at eight to 10 years, when you would start seeing it inside vehicles," Bud said. ...
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  • Number of Quotes: 6
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.1859006
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Bud Zaouk

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Meredith Eastridge

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Meredith

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-0.0888561"I remember saying look at that, look at that car. That was the last thing i remember" before being hit head-on, Meredith said. ...
-0.0181658"I think about him every day, how old he would be and what he would be doing," Meredith said. ...
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  • Number of Quotes: 2
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Matt

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Relevance: 0.467177

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-0.152316"There were multiple times in that night this tragedy could have been avoided," Matt said. ...
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David Huffman

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Sloane

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Country: U.S.

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