Nissan Pushes Through with the Breathalyzer—Tests Ongoing
Not much bigger than a cell phone is Nissan’s new on-board alcohol detection system to help prevent drunk driving. This on-board breath tester is intended to be rolled out in production vehicles someday soon.
Nissan will be adding yet another innovation in the car industry. Aside from perfecting its cars and all the advanced optimizations that it is able to equip, Nissan is now focusing on how to ensure the well-being of its car drivers. With all the accidents and controversial apprehension of celebrities involved with drunk-driving, Nissan thought better and came up with the solution to efface this growing problem.
Hence, the Breathalyzer came to the scene, making the drunk-driving technology come to life. Last Tuesday Nissan has announced that tests in Japan will start in order to achieve the implementation of the Breathalyzer in their future vehicle productions.
Nissan will be testing an on-board Breathalyzer system that can sniff the alcohol on a driver’s breath. This data will be processed, and if the amount exceeds a specified level, the ignition will be disabled through an interlock mechanism. In this case, since the vehicle will not start while intoxicated with alcohol, it will prevent the usual drunken mentality that you can still drive.
Toyota is said to be developing a similar fail-safe system for detecting drunk driving that uses sweat detectors and can sense abnormal steering in advance of shutting down the car.
“The drunk-driving system will work on daily-operating vehicles where the drivers will monitor various factors such as functionality and alcohol-detection reliability,” Nissan said.
The prevention of drunk-driving should be an initiative that comes from the driver himself. But since thinking car companies such as Nissan has taken a step to fulfill this realization, then we all ought to grab hold of this solution.