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Using lasers to detect DUI drivers?

In Poland, a laser system has been developed which can detect alcohol vapors inside passing vehicles from more than 60 feet away. Many are heralding this as a great tool that should be used in DUI crackdowns. Would you like to see these lasers used by law enforcement here in the US to enforce DUI laws? One of the significant problems we see with this sort of technology is the fact that these lasers cannot differentiate between alcohol vapors attributable to passengers or spilled beverages and vapors emitting from the breath of the driver. This would mean that officers could pull people over even if a designated driver who was under the legal limit was operating the vehicle.

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