Commentary: Stop drunken driving with advanced car technology
Azeza Salama, For the Express-News
July 19, 2021
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San Antonio police in 2016 investigate a suspected DWI crash. Lawmakers have filed two bills in Congress that would require systems in all vehicles to prevent drunken driving.Staff file photo
He saw it coming. In his final moment of life, Johnny Hernandez a two-tour veteran of the Iraq war, newly promoted Army Reserve staff sergeant and the love of my life instinctively turned our car so he would take the impact of a wrong-way drunken driver’s SUV hurtling toward us. Johnny’s maneuver saved me and my two little daughters.
John and Alisa McMorris and their daughter Arianna hold a picture of Andrew at Saturday’s ceremony to formally open the Andrew McMorris Lodge. (Credit: Joe Werkmeister)
The scouting spirit of Andrew McMorris will continue to shine as generations of future scouts visit the new lodge that bears his name.
The Andrew McMorris Lodge at the Baiting Hollow Scout Camp in Calverton was formally unveiled with a ribbon cutting ceremony Saturday morning, marking the culmination of a restoration project to turn a rundown Adirondack cabin into a new, updated space that can accommodate large groups of boys and girls.
A picture of Andrew from his seventh-grade school year rested on a folding chair at the end of a row next to Andrew’s parents, Alisa and John McMorris, sister Arianna, and his close friend Carter Rubin during the ceremony. All throughout the lodge, Andrew’s memory was omnipresent.
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MADD calls for passage of RIDE Act to require lifesaving technology in all new cars
The RIDE Act holds the potential to eliminate drunk driving forever and it is one of the most important initiatives in MADD’s 40-year history. WASHINGTON (PRWEB) April 22, 2021 New bipartisan legislation introduced today by Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-New Mexico) and Senator Rick Scott (R-Florida) would ultimately mandate drunk driving prevention technology as standard equipment in all new vehicles. The Reduce Impaired Driving for Everyone (RIDE) Act would require the U.S. Department of Transportation to issue a rulemaking to make this lifesaving technology available in all new passenger vehicles.
Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) March 15, 2021 Most U.S. consumers support state-of-the-art technology as standard equipment in all new vehicles to prevent drunk
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