High technologies on the sobriety party

It is written on July, 30th, 2007 to News categories in a theme
Throughout the previous post about efficiency of high technologies in struggle against drunk drivers, news from the rising sun country (can when нибудь progress will reach and us):


The Japanese transport companies will use technology of a mobile communication for revealing of drunk drivers and their discharge from driving. The company system «NTT DoCoMo» uses the analyzer of breath which sends data to the service centre, preventing possibility to the driver to get the car. The drivers leaving on change, make a video call to the service centre of the company before the testing beginning. The software package which is a part of system, confirms identification of the driver. Technology cost on one workplace makes about $2 thousand

«NTT DoCoMo» the System has already sold the system to 50 taxi and bus companies from the moment of system representation in September, 2006 is on sale while exclusively in Japan.

The director «NTT DoCoMo» on marketing Рио Кийофуджи explains, that the companies are interested in use of the given technology as show to associates that measures on struggle against driving in a state of intoxication undertake, thereby avoiding responsibility in case of deadly outcomes because of such driving.

To drivers at whom excess of norm of the maintenance of alcohol in the beginning of the working day will be revealed, it will be forbidden to sit down a wheel this day, and they will not be dismissed. Under the law, in Japan the norm of the maintenance of alcohol in blood of the driver should not exceed 1,1 mg/l of exhaled air.