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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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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Matt
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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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New technology to keep drunk drivers from driving
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A $10 million project is looking to install blood alcohol sensors that would stop drunk drivers from starting cars
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