AUTOMOBILES

CHRIS BORRONI-BIRD, General Motors Design and Technology Fusion Group Director and GRAHAM CHEDD, PBS series producer, May 20, 2004
CZIKOWSKY: Isn’t there a technology that allows a car to detect an increasingly closer and dangerous proximity to another car that allows a warning or some action to reduce car accidents?
CHEDD: Yes, those technologies are being developed by all major car technologies.
BORRONI-BIRD: The Cadillac XLR had adapted cruise control that keeps you art a certain distance from a vehicle in front of you—we have been developing towards accident/collision prevention.
CHEDD: I believe that DaimlerChrysler has an active program in that area as well.

JEFFREY MICHAEL, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Impaired Driving Specialist, December 17, 2004
CZIKOWSKY: What do you think of the proposal to create a crime of aggravated driving under the influence, where larger penalties exist for driving with a 1.5 blood alcohol content? Should we be devoting more resources at getting the heavier drinker into the system earlier?
MICHAEL: Many states have passed laws that deal even more harshly with drivers who are impaired at very high levels. Some of these hard core offenders have alcohol abuse problems and are very difficult to rehabilitate. On the other hand, about half of impaired drivers in fatal crashes of BAC levels below .15.