Law and the General Practitioner. Drunken driving.

Integrated Drunken Driving Prevention System

As is needless to say; a majority of accidents, which occur, are due to drunk driving. As such, there is no effective mechanism to prevent this. Here we have designed an integrated system for the same purpose. Alcohol content in the driver’s body is detected by means of an infrared breath analyzer placed at the steering wheel. An infrared cell directs infrared energy through the sample and any ...

Non Intrusive Drunken Driving and Driver Drowsiness

The aim of our project is to provide a real time non-intrusive driver drowsiness detection to prevent the rapidly growing accidents caused by sleepy or drunk driver. We are going to merge the 2 requirements for safe driving in a single equipment. The car does not function unless the two conditions of safe driving are satisfied. Bio signals, such as brain waves, pulsation waves, and heart beat a...

Estimating alcohol impairment in the field: implications for drunken driving.

As they left a fraternity party, 93 college-age students were asked to estimate their blood alcohol level (BAL) and to report whether they were legally impaired. They were also asked to report the number of 10-oz cups of beer they had consumed during the party. Actual BALs were tested on a Breathalyzer and the subjects' self-reported number of cups were compared with the cup-by-cup consumption ...

Recent Preventive Measures To Drunken Driving In The Netherlands

In the last fifteen years four measures to reduce (in)directly the number of cases of drunken driving were introduced in the Netherlands. These measures are: the Law of administrative enforcement of traffic regulations, the administrative withdrawal of the driver’s license, the administrative confiscation of the vehicles and the educational measure alcohol and traffic. This paper deals with the...

Crime, Punishment and Monitoring: Deterring Drunken Driving in India