Being in the bar and partying all night with friends and acquaintances is one well, a fact of life. It happens. We go there, enjoy some drinks, some more and then some more.

Some of us manage to think through the cobwebs and not drive. Others, well, after all the inhibitions have gone out of their bodies, still hit the road with their hands on the wheel. Good if they arrive home safe and without mishap. Most of the time, however, drunk driving leads to people cuffed behind bars or worse, fatal accidents that cost the life of the driver, his passengers, or other innocent bystanders.  

Well to solve this problem, Nissan has come up with a new concept car designed specifically to reduce drunk driving.

The Nissan Fuga Sedan comes with Alcohol Odor Sensors which detects the presence of alcohol in drivers. The sensors can detect alcohol in the driver’s palms through the transmission knob. Same sensors are also placed in the driver and passenger seats to sense the level of alcohol in the whole car cabin.

With its Facial Recognition system, the system’s camera will determine the driver’s level of consciousness by the blinking of the eyes.

It will also monitor the operational behavior of the vehicle all throughout the travel. If it is veering outside its lane, and other signs of inattentiveness in the driver, voice alerts and messages will be issued from the navigation system.  

Along with this detection and alert technologies, preventive measures are also one of the great features of this car including immobilization when the driver is too drunk to drive.

As Nissan said, “No more Drunk Driving Arrests”. Let’s just hope Nissan succeeds in this one.