Drinking alcohol is a social custom that has been around since the early days of man. However the difference with today’s alcoholic drinking by comparison to that of say just 200 years ago relates to the scale of damage someone under the influence of alcohol can inflict on their local community when driving behind the wheel of a car. Being drunk and picking a fight is one thing, being drunk and mowing down an innocent pedestrian quite another. So does the alcohol analyzer have a place in today’s drunken driving conscious world?
February 21, 2007
Does the Alcohol Breath Analyzer Serve A Socially Useful Purpose?
January 31, 2007
A Bit of History on the Alcohol Breath Analyzer
In order to understand the basic principles behind the operation of the alcohol breath analyzer, one needs familiarity with both biological and chemical facts. But in order to appreciate the importance of the alcohol breath analyzer, one does not need any science training. More than fifty years ago, the analyzer satisfied a pressing need. It was a pressing need that was recognized by many police who were out watching the drivers on the road. It was a need that was met by one inventive police officer in the state of Indiana. Read here about who he was and what he invented.
December 7, 2006
Examining the Need for a Deep Lung Breath Analyzer
Law enforcement once hoped that the creation of an alcohol test, one that could be used in police headquarters, would decrease the incidence of drunk driving. As their hopes dimmed somewhat, those same law enforcement officers turned their attention to information about the deep lung breath analyzer. Yet those same officers had to face a stark reality. They knew that widespread use of the deep lung breath analyzer would not develop overnight. They knew too how long it had taken for the public to agree to “buckle-up” whenever proceeding down a highway or surface street in a motored vehicle with 4 or more wheels.
October 7, 2006
Self Alcohol Breath Test
Knowing when you’ve had too much to drink is a tough thing to do. The simple answer is to say that if you’ve had anything to drink it makes you unable to drive, but legally that is not always the case. There’s a big difference between a DUI and a DWI. Not just legally, but financially and criminally. The only way to be certain is to know the legal limits and to take an alcohol breath test. An alcohol breath test will give you an exact alcohol to blood content, which is what the police use to enforce the drunk driving laws that are so vigilant.
August 23, 2006
An Analysis of the Technology in the Alcohol Breath Analyzer
If someone were told that “MEMS” stood for an important new technological innovation, that individual might think that “MEMS” had something to do with memory. In fact, it refers to the technology in the alcohol breath analyzer. More precisely, it refers to the sensors within the standard alcohol breath analyzer. Those sensors were created by researchers at a California University. Those researchers did not realize that their sensors would assist many members of the California Highway Patrol (CHPS). They would help CHPS to stop and then identify many drunk drivers.