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At an event in Washington, DC, officials with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the nations top road safety regulator, said the technology could help prevent thousands of annual road deaths involving alcohol..
Almost 13,400 people died in US alcohol-related crashes in 2021 alone, NHTSA figures say...
Congress directed the NHTSA to create regulations requiring advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology in vehicles in 2021s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law..
In a document accompanying Tuesday's announcement, regulators laid out several open questions around anti-drunk-driving technology that made clear the NHTSAs plans are at an early stage: Whats the best way to determine whether someone is drunk or drowsy or distracted, and should the car treat those impairments differently?.
Federal regulators said that while they believed the direction from Congress in the Infrastructure Bill intended for the NHTSA to require anti-drugged-driving technology too, the current process will focus only on alcohol...
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