France Leads Alcohol-Screening Test On board A Blowpipe

Since 1 July 2012 must be every driver in France an alcohol-screening test have in your car. This also applies to foreigners. There's also the soon to us?

Since 1 July 2012 are required motorists in France to carry alcohol rapid tests. Since December of 2011, discos and night clubs provide this so that guests can check their driving ability. The tests consist of air bag and blowpipe, and are available for one to three euros as at petrol stations and supermarkets. Depending on the alcohol they turn differently on a color scale can be read off the ability to drive. The requirement to carry also applies to foreigners who travel in the neighboring country. If you are caught without a test to be reckoned with eleven euro fine. France wants to reduce the disposable test the high proportion of alcohol-related accidents. In 31 percent of all traffic fatalities where alcohol was involved. For Germany, the alcohol rapid tests are not currently a topic.

"We must first wait for the experience in France and check the results afterwards carefully. In Germany, we focus on particular risk groups, such as alcohol-striking drivers. For those in the national drug strategy was to examine the use of alcolocks decided," said Mechthild Dyckmans (FDP ), drug Commissioner of the Federal government, in March 2012 in respect of AUTO BILD. In Baden-Wuerttemberg, which borders France, feared Transport Minister Winfried Hermann (Green), that drivers are seduced by the self-tests to be heranzutrinken the alcohol limit. "Anyone who drives a car should not drink alcohol in general. I see no reason why, rapid tests to require compulsory for all motorists," said Hermann. His party colleague Toni Hofreiter alcolock calls for a requirement for buses: immobilisers, which dissolve only if no alcohol is present in the breath. The U.S. DOT also relies on alcolocks, but they should come on a voluntary basis to use. In particular, "in connection with the rehabilitation of alcohol-related offenses drivers" had this sense, according to a spokesman.