The Key to Stopping Drunk Driving?

Don’t drink and drive!! It is a slogan we hear from the time we are in elementary school; they try to drill it into us like they drill our letters and numbers. Even before we really understand what alcohol is, we’re ordered not to consume it and then drive.

Nevertheless, people still do. It seems that everywhere you turn there’s another tragic story of an accident that happened because an inebriated person got behind the wheel of a car. This epidemic – for it can rightly be called such – has been the subject of legal measures, societal stigma, and preventative education, but it still has not been “cured.” Frustrating, no?

Also extremely frustrating is the simple, easy solution that everyone seems to miss. It’s easy to take a person’s blood alcohol level these days with a breathalyzer test. Police officers carry them as a matter of course, after all. But there is no easy access to a breathalyzer outside law enforcement, is there?

The Alco-buddy aims to change all of that. The Alco-buddy is a breathalyzer machine, about the size of a large backpack and made of galvanized steel, meant to be mounted at eye level on a barroom wall. It vends straws – any kind may be used – and walks the customer through the process of testing their blood alcohol level using a digital video screen. The eye-catching design ensures that people will be curious enough to come over and look at it.

The Alco-buddy is the best of its kind, featuring the best alcohol sensor. The alcohol sensor only needs to be changed once every eight hundred to one thousand one hundred uses, and a replacement sensor is only one hundred dollars. It is also a globally useful machine, as it can be programmed for any language and any currency, and can be customized to accept credit cards as well. In the states, it will accept ones, fives, tens, and twenty-dollar bills, though you can set it so that it only accepts up to four bills during any one use. All of these features are controlled by nine switches inside of the Alco-buddy, making it easy to customize pretty much every aspect of your breathalyzer vending machine.

But these features, among others, are not the reason why the Alco-buddy makes a great investment for any bar or other drinking establishment. The Alco-buddy is not a mere vending machine; It is a vending machine that is entirely capable of saving people’s lives if given the chance. I’m of the opinion that many drunk drivers would not drive if they were aware of their blood-alcohol levels; cold, hard numbers have a way of doing that, I suppose.