Citation

Flores AL, Wu YC, Eliason LK. Proc. Int. Counc. Alcohol Drugs Traffic Safety Conf. 1981; 1981: 721-735.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1981, The author(s) and the Council, Publisher International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety)

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Abstract

A novel simulator has been developed which replaces the use of intoxicated human subjects in performance evaluation of breath alcohol testers and significantly improves the validity of the evaluations. Essential parameters associated with the breath of intoxicated human subjects which are reproduced by the device are discussed. The increased precision and control of these parameters provide a degree of test discriminability which is not possible with intoxicated human subjects. In the evaluation of breath testers, the novel simulator overcomes the following disadvantages associated with the use of human subjects: (1) the inherent physiological variations encountered in intoxicated human breath testing. (2) difficulties in obtaining a sample representative of the drinking driver population. (3) problems in safeguarding the health of human subjects used in experimentation according to established federal guidelines. (TRRL)