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Driving Under the Influence of?Ice Cream?

By Lawrence Taylor

I’ve posted repeatedly in the past about the multitude of problems with breath-alcohol machines – including the disturbing fact that they are non-specific for ethyl alcohol.  In fact, they don’t actually measure alcohol, but rather the presence of the methyl group in the compound.  See Why Breathlayzers Don’t Measure Alcohol. Unfortunately, there are thousands of compounds that contain the methyl group, and studies have confirmed that over 100 of these have been found on the human breath.  In one oft-cited experiment, for example, blood-alcohol levels of .05% were reported by breath machines after the subjects consumed only bread.  See Driving Under the Influence of…Bread? Recently, MADD has successfully pushed for the mandatory installation of ignition interlock devices (IIDs) in cars driven by anyone convicted of drunk driving — and, in time, as standard equipement in all vehicles...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on January 21, 2009 (boomark / email).