Feds want new cars to come standard equipped with alcohol sensors

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety (ACTS) have been working on a 10 year cooperative agreement to create the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety (DADSS) -- a non-invasive technology that will prevent a person from starting a DADSS-equipped vehicle if the driver has an illegal BAC limit of .08 or above.

"It will be made available as a safety option in new vehicles - like automatic braking, lane departure warning and other advanced driver assist vehicle technologies."  So in other words expect this to become mandatory in 5 years!

DHS and police want new cars to come standard equipped with alcohol sensors: "This paper provides an overview of regulatory and non-regulatory approaches to vehicle technology development and deployment, and will describe a new, innovative public\private partnership underway to develop an in-vehicle alcohol detection system."
"However, in recognition that many alcohol-impaired drivers have not been convicted of DWI, an effort is underway to develop advanced in-vehicle technologies that could be fitted in vehicles of all drivers to measure driver blood alcohol concentration non-invasively."
"The Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety (ACTS, a group funded by vehicle manufacturers) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have commenced a 5-year cooperative agreement entitled Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety (DADSS) to explore the feasibility of, and the public policy challenges associated with, widespread use of in-vehicle alcohol detection technology to prevent alcohol-impaired driving."
Soon EVERY new car will come standard equipped with touch-based alcohol sensors and breath detectors.

On page 5 of the DADDS PowerPoint presentation they proudly boast their "longer term goal is DADDS in EVERY vehicle."

Page 7 describes their criteria for acceptable widespread use:

1. Quick to use
2. Accurate
3. Small
4. Reliable
5. Repeatable
6. Durable, Robust
7. Low Cost
8. No or Low Maintenance
9. Virtually Invisible to Sober Drivers

"To be acceptable for use among all drivers, many of whom do not drink and drive, in-vehicle alcohol detection technologies must be seamless with the driving task; they must be nonintrusive, reliable, durable and require little or no maintenance.'
Every time you start your car you'll be given a low dose radiation scan from infrared lights!

The Feds want an alcohol sensing device that can determine a drivers BAC in 0.5 seconds and recycle, meaning it will constantly monitor and expose you to infrared light! Click here, here & here to read about the dangers infrared lights pose to humans.

How touch based sensors work:

"The touch-based system analyzes alcohol found beneath the skin’s surface (or more specifically, the blood alcohol content detected in the capillaries). Measurement begins by shining an infrared light on the driver’s skin, similar to a low power flashlight, which moves into the tissue. A portion of the light is reflected back to the skin’s surface, where it is collected by the touch pad. This light contains information on the skin’s unique chemical properties, including the concentration of alcohol."

How breath sensors work:

"The system draws the driver’s exhaled breath into a sensor, which measures the concentrations of alcohol and carbon dioxide present. The known quantity of carbon dioxide in human breath serves as an indicator of the degree of dilution of the alcohol concentration in exhaled air."

"The Autoliv device directs infrared light beams on the breath sample and analyzes the wavelengths returned to quickly and accurately calculate the alcohol concentration. Autoliv continues to move towards a prototype that can be integrated into a vehicle by utilizing mirrors to reduce the required optical length of the device. The device is highly sensitive and able to analyze diluted breath samples at dilutions expected from a driver’s natural breath plume."

The DADDS research program began in 2008 which means it's only two years away from their dream come true of making them an option available in any new car.The program is now in Phase II, with planning underway for Phase III.

• Phase I – Research and analysis of two different technological approaches to measuring driver alcohol levels - a touch-based approach allowing assessment of alcohol in human tissue and a breath-based approach allowing assessment of alcohol concentration in the driver’s exhaled breath focused on speed, accuracy and precision. Completed 2011.

• Phase II – Additional Research and testing of touch-based and breath-based sensors to improve accuracy and precision performance, and decrease measurement time to meet or exceed DADSS performance specifications. The prototypes will then be installed in a research vehicle. This phase is expected to be completed early 2016.

• Phase III – Phase III and subsequent phases of research will permit further refinement of the technology and test instruments as well as basic and applied research to understand human interaction with the sensors both physiologically and ergonomically – that is, how these technologies might operate in a vehicle environment. This phase began in late 2013 and is being conducted in parallel with the Phase II research.

DADDS is a nothing more that a Homeland Security front.

DHS oversees the NHTSA! 

DHS has partnered with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Click here & here to read more.

The Department of Transportation is part of DHS. Click here, here and here to read more.

And ACTS is also working for DHS, click here to read more.

If you haven't guessed yet the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) is working with DADDS.

"To vastly reduce the number of impaired-drivers who escape capture, the NTSB encourages NHTSA and the Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety Incorporated to expedite the development and implementation of passive safety technologies, such as the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety (DADSS), as opposed to active ones, such as alcohol ignition interlocks. DADSS is intended at this stage of development to detect BAC passively using two sensor systems: one based on breath, and the other based on touch. but it currently is at least a decade away from being available as optional equipment in new vehicles. The IACP Highway Safety Committee (HSC) intends to begin exploring Safety Recommendation H-12-49 at its 2013 Agenda Screening Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, this month."

Congress, DHS and car manufacturers are working together to put alcohol sensors in every vehicle.

“There is still a great deal of work to do, but support from Congress and the industry has helped us achieve key research and development milestones,” NHTSA administrator Mark Rosekind said. “DADSS has enormous potential to prevent drunk driving in specific populations such as teen drivers and commercial fleets, and making it an option available to vehicle owners would provide a powerful new tool in the battle against drunk driving deaths.”

Whenever the government wants the 'sheeple' to accept an invasive spying technology they claim its for public safety as evidenced by DADDS claim on their website:

"Every year in the U.S., drunk driving claims more than 10,000 lives and costs approximately $199 billion."   

But the truth is drunk driving has been steadily decreasing for years! Recent DHS/NHTSA studies claim drunk driving is decreasing. Click here to read more.

"The alcohol-impaired-driving fatality rate in the past 10 years has declined by 23 percent, from 2004 - 2013."

Last year, during a congressional hearing on the threat posed by stoned drivers, a representative of the NHTSA was asked how many crash fatalities are caused by marijuana each year. "That's difficult to say," replied Jeff Michael, NHTSA's associate administrator for research and program development. "We don't have a precise estimate." The most he was willing to affirm was that the number is "probably not" zero.

For more information about how DHS has been working for years to put breathalyzers in vehicles read the following stories:

MADD/DHS want to put breathalyzers in every vehicle.  MADD has a close relationship with DHS, click here & here to read more.

- DHS wants automakers to equip every car with DUI interlock devices.

- NHTSA's "Evaluation of State Ignition Interlock Programs"

- DHS wants to have everyone wear portable alcohol biosensors.

What's it going to take for the American people to rise up and stop Police State America?