Alco-Buddy Leading Tool in DUI Prevention

One of the most common, and saddest, tragedies in America today is that of the traffic accident caused by drunk driving. It is almost as though one cannot turn around or even blink without hearing the news of another accident in the paper, online, or on television.

Legislation has been enacted to punish drunk drivers, and there’s a heavy social stigma on the action as well, with programs like DARE and organizations like MADD. However, both of these things and preventative education haven’t stopped this all-too-common tragedy.

One sector, though, of society, has yet to really contribute to the fight against drunk driving, until now. This sector of society has taken a good hard look at one device used widely in law enforcement and thought, “Why isn’t this more commonly found around regular people?

I’m speaking, of course, of industry, and the breathalyzer. The breathalyzer is a standard tool amongst police officers because it is quick and easy to use, and it is accurate enough to be admissible in court as well as to legalize an arrest. However, one finds that the breathalyzer hardly exists outside the justice system.

The Alcobuddy is the remedy to this. It is a wall-mounted breathalyzer machine intended for installation in barrooms and other alcohol-serving establishments in order to provide the average joe or jane with easy access to the hard data they need to make an informed decision as to whether they can or should drive home. Most people never feel as drunk as they actually are, and finding out their blood-
alcohol level could be the wake-up call they need.

Some of the features of the Alcobuddy are aimed at the bar patrons, like its attractive design – meant to attract attention, the first step in promoting use – and its digital video screen. The Alcobuddy will guide a patron through the process of testing their breath, and will provide them with a number accurate within plus or minus .01 units. Ease of use and accuracy of numbers are the most important features to the Alcobuddy.

There are also plenty of advantages for the bar or club owner who installs the Alcobuddy in their venue. The Alcobuddy is extremely autonomous; it has the longest lasting alcohol sensor in the industry, which only needs to be changed with every 800 to 1100 uses. It also contains 600 straws – and any kinds of straws can be used with the machine. Beyond that, the Alcobuddy is extremely adaptable – it can be programmed for any currency or language in the world, and can even be made bilingual.

If you’re interested in what the Alcobuddy can do for you, your business, and the safety of your patrons, check out the website at www.alcobuddy.com. Trust me, you won’t regret it.

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.

The Latest In Alco-Buddy Machine Design

Alco-Buddy is always coming up with innovative ideas in cutting edge alcohol breathalyzer machine designs. The most recently engineered machine features a breathalyzer machine in the shape of a bottle. The bottle design is capable of being custom wrapped in any liquor company design that you choose. This allows liquor or beer companies to pay to have their custom wrap design featured on the machine.

Three standard wraps are currently offered: a popular whisky brand, a popular domestic beer brand and a popular imported beer brand. But the bottle design can be made and customized to whatever specifications may be needed.

The standard Alco-Buddy machine design is also able to be custom wrapped. Sometimes, customization is key to getting a machine placed if the owner of the establishment prefers their machine to coordinate with the interior design. Together with the graphics team, a custom vinyl wrap can be created to meet any design needs, without any delay in production.

The availability to customize the machine however one likes is further enhanced by the new LCD screen feature that make it possible to sell advertising spots to national and/or local companies. The companies would provide a video commercial that can easily be loaded on to an SD card and inserted into the LCD screen. A substantial amount of money can be generated monthly from the 50-100 video clips the LCD is capable of storing.

In addition to the breathalyzer test, using custom wraps along with an integrated LCD design is just another way to increase the revenue stream that is capable of being generated by the Alco-Buddy breathalyzer vending machine.

To learn more, please visit www.alcobuddy.com