We often come across instances where her about people being too drunk to even make a phone call with ease. In US alone there are a reported 10000 number of deaths caused by drunken driving in the year 2010 alone that proves the need of better monitoring services to prevent drunken driving. Alcohoot seems to be the perfect smartphone solution yet that helps drinkers with various options to reach home safely or to find a place to crash safely for the night.
Unlike many keychain breathalysers that are fairly inaccurate Alcohoot claims to as accurate as the ones used by the police to monitor alcohol content in drivers but cost only 99$, a fraction of what the current high grade breathalysers cost. Alcohoot connects to iPhone either by bluetooth or by the 3.5mm jack on the phone.
Alcohoot says it is planning to tie up with various cab rental services like Uber and offer its users cab service at a discounted rate when it detects that the user has alcohol levels beyond acceptable limits in his body. Apart from that Alcohoot even provides various other options like finding a suitable hotel around or informing his friends about the users situation or easy phone calling to pre-set contacts. Alcohoot even integrates with social networks to prove to your friends that you are being socially responsible by taking a cab back home rather than driving all by yourself in case you are drunk.
We would love to see the day when all cars come with such systems inbuilt and allows its drives to start the car only upon successfully verifying through the breathalyser.
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