Drivers who cannot resist possessing “one more for the road” may well quickly uncover themselves unable to get to the road, and rather, stuck in the parking lot. GM boss Mary Barra has confirmed that the automaker has been establishing technologies that will avoid drivers who’ve had as well considerably to drink from operating their personal vehicles.

“We’ve been working with regulators on that,” Barra told attendees at an Economic Club occasion in Washington, D.C., referring to the alcohol detection systems. “We have technology to do that,” she reiterated although speaking to the club’s chairman, David Rubenstein, Auto News reports. “I think that’s technology that’s coming that I think is going to be good for everyone.”

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The news is not completely unexpected, coming a day soon after the NHTSA produced its initial move towards demanding anti-impairment technologies in new cars. The NHTSA hasn’t been operating on this system in a vaccum and it is only organic that automakers will have been busy to make positive they’re ready for any future regulations. But it is nonetheless massive news to hear an individual like GM confirm that the tech is coming, even if it could be many years ahead of production vehicles are equipped with devices that will not let us drive them when more than the limit.

Ridding the roads of drunk drivers is some thing we ought to all want to see occur. The NHTSA says that virtually 13,400 individuals died in alcohol-connected accidents in 2021 – up 14 % from 2020 – which expense each lives and cash: the administration puts the figure at $280 billion of factors like healthcare costs and lost wages. But you can envision that a handful of drivers, probably in much more rural communities, will not be ecstatic about the news, and neither will these who see the tech as one more curb on freedom. Where do you stand?