In-car drink-drive detector gets first road trials

ROAD trials for the first in-car drink-drive detector began yesterday. A detector which can tell whether a driver has drunk too much to be safe at the wheel has been developed by scientists.

The device works by measuring the degree of co-ordination between hand and eye and monitoring steering wheel movements and then comparing the two.

The detector has been developed by scientists at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) and the University of Bristol.