Device senses alcoholic breath
NZPA-Reuter Peking China has begun exporting an electronic device which can sense alcohol on motorists’ breath and stop them from starting the engine, reports a Peking magazine. The monthly “China Reconstructs” said that three factories were producing the sensor for clients in Japan, the Philippines, and Hong Kong, as well as China. The inventor, a technician
in the People’s Liberation Army, Mr Ren Zhicheng, hit on the idea at his birthday party when his wife proposed a toast, the magazine said. The pungent smell of the fiery Maotai liquor which she had been drinking took his breath away. Mr Ren, who had already developed a fire alarm triggered by a smoke sensor, decided to adapt the technique to produce an alcohol detector.
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