Cars are already pretty smart. They can tell when you aren't paying attention to the road, they know if you take your hands off the steering wheel, and they can even tell when you're sleepy. Some cars will flash a little coffee cup symbol when they think you're too tired to drive. But what if they could determine if a driver is drunk? That's what the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is proposing and GM is getting behind the idea.
The NHTSA has been trying to get drunk-driving-detection technology into cars for years. However, it's just recently issued an Advanced Notice for Proposed Rule Making (ANPRM) for "impaired driving prevention technology." In a nutshell, the NHTSA wants to create criteria for what constitutes impaired driving and the technology to detect it. And GM is working to help create such technology.
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