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The Truth About Ignition Interlock Devices

By Lawrence Taylor

For the past year now, MADD has trumpeted its latest solution to the drunk driving problem.  After 13 years of essentially unchanged DUI-related fatality statistics (they have actually increased), MADD is now promising in its recent solicitations for money (average $52 million a year) that their latest weapon will ?eliminate drunk driving once and for all?.  And in recent press releases, MADD’s national president is promising that it will ?literally wipe out drunk driving in the United States?. Pretty grandiose claims.  So what is this new miracle weapon?  The ignition interlock device, or “IID”.  Problem #1: They don’t work.  See my guest editorial in Business Week, MADD Announces an End to Drunk Driving: A Reply...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on May 06, 2008 (boomark / email).